Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been that " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 2 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 3 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 4 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , she 's been that in her time too . ’ |
| 6 | I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots . |
| 7 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 8 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 9 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 10 | It became a decisive and dangerous piece of initiative and the escaper got the credit of it having been that all the time . |
| 11 | If only it had been that nice John Smith , with his twinkling accountant 's eyes and trust-me smile . |
| 12 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 13 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 14 | Medical men had perforce to be botanists , and often gardeners as well , and in time medical knowledge came to be the perquisite of the European religious orders , as it had been that of the priests in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs . |
| 15 | " You 'd have asked at the door if it had been that . |
| 16 | A shiver ran through Theda 's body — the frame that was near a shadow of itself , just as it had been that long-gone day in March . |
| 17 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 18 | It had been that first visit to the police station , when the Prince had dangled money in front of the local chief . |
| 19 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 20 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 21 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 22 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 23 | He 's been that sad the last few days . " |