Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He did one thing in Hollywood for which he has not been given anything like sufficient credit .
2 And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about
3 ‘ I 've been expecting something like that to happen , ’ she said .
4 Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours .
5 He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier .
6 Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth .
7 Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan .
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