Example sentences of "'s be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 2 | Everyone 's got their problems , and no-one knows what life 's been like for anyone else . |
| 3 | But — ’ she turned to him , eyes brimming with tears , ‘ — you do n't know what it 's been like , trying every day to live a lie … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't think what it 's been like . |
| 5 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 6 | You know what it 's been like ever since we left the Store . ’ |
| 7 | It 's … well , to put it poetically , it 's been like finding an oasis in a desert . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 9 | The next step of adopting a coach as a father figure is more dubious , however , though a great many sportsmen would describe their trainers or managers as Maurice Hope describes Terry Lawless : ‘ He 's been like a father to me ; no , more than a father , actually . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes it has n't , mostly it has , but whatever the weather 's been like , the copy has to be delivered , the pictures taken , the enthusiasm maintained . |
| 11 | You have no idea , have you , what my life 's been like ? ’ |
| 12 | That 's been like going out |
| 13 | In the past month in here , well , it 's been like that every day . |
| 14 | In fact , you 're a girl who 's going places — once you 've untied yourself from this man who 's been like a millstone around your neck for the last four years . |
| 15 | ‘ How do you know what it 's been like ? ’ she accused . |
| 16 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 18 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 19 | He 's been like this only for about thirty seconds . |
| 20 | I think it 's level , I think the , the benefit just stays the same cos the , the cost has n't increased it 's been like that for oh she 's been paying round about twelve pounds a month now for as long as I can remember . |
| 21 | She 's been like it all weekend I think . |
| 22 | she 's been like that for two days now |
| 23 | He 's been like this since I come in . |
| 24 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 25 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |
| 26 | But he were n't like that when they came he were n't like erm Wayne , Celia 's Wayne , I mean he 's been like it forever |
| 27 | It 's been like a week . |
| 28 | He 's been like that all his life , why bother now ? |
| 29 | It 's been like that dad this past fortnight . |