Example sentences of "been like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 2 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 3 | He has always been like this . |
| 4 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 5 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 6 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 9 | There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties . |
| 10 | But it has not always been like this . |
| 11 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 12 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 13 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 14 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 15 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 16 | It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ How long have you been like this ? ’ |
| 18 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 19 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 20 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 21 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 22 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 23 | It had been like this last night . |
| 24 | How long had it been like this , untouched by people , gradually decaying and changing with the wind and the weather ? |
| 25 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 26 | Er what 's the atmosphere like in Belfast , what 's it been like this week ? |
| 27 | He 's never been like this . |
| 28 | ‘ How long has he been like this ? ’ |
| 29 | He 's been like this only for about thirty seconds . |
| 30 | If only all school trips had been like this . |