Example sentences of "have been like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 2 | I also understand that one of the street lights in Lower Dolphinholme is burning continuously and has been like this for some time . |
| 3 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 4 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 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 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 9 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 10 | It had been like this last night . |
| 11 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 12 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 13 | I 've smoked more while I 've been like this |
| 14 | Oh , we 've been like this all , Amy and Richard tried to tidy it up . |
| 15 | I 've been , I 've been like this for three nights . |
| 16 | somebody at work , what 's a matter love you 've been like this since you 've got up have n't you ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 's been like this only for about thirty seconds . |
| 20 | He 's been like this since I come in . |