Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] that [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
2 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
3 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
4 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
5 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |