Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 2 | Fairfax has n't been this way for twenty years . |
| 3 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 4 | She had not been that way before . |
| 5 | I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man . |
| 6 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 7 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 9 | He had never been this way before . |
| 10 | The reason I cover my head is difficult to explain , because it 's always been that way . |
| 11 | But it 's always been that way . |
| 12 | I mean , she 's always been that way nervous and |
| 13 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 14 | Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’ |