Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have [been] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 2 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 3 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 4 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 5 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 6 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 7 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 8 | At that time he would have been like many thousand of other youngsters , the sweepings of the hungry ‘ forties . |