Example sentences of "been like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 2 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 3 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 4 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 5 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 8 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 9 | In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department : |
| 10 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 11 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 12 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 13 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 15 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 16 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 17 | The effect on a racehorse would have been like ‘ a firework exploding in its ear ’ . |
| 18 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 19 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 20 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 21 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 22 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 23 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 24 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 25 | When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears . |
| 26 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 27 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 28 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 29 | In this respect , it has been like Frank 's own career since The Americans . |
| 30 | Have they provided prize-fights , or has it all been like all-in wrestling , where the heaves and grunts and assaults have seemed stagey and contrived ? |