BEEN in Classic Quotes

1  Soda had been twelve then, going-on-thirteen.

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Context   In Chapter 3

2  But those beatings had been nothing like this.

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Context   In Chapter 2

3  If I had been Cherry I would have beat it out of there.

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Context   In Chapter 2

4  He would have run away a million times if we hadn't been there.

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Context   In Chapter 1

5  I sat down again, rubbing my cheek where I'd been slugged the most.

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Context   In Chapter 1

6  Not unless you're hurt like Johnny had been that day we found him in the vacant lot.

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Context   In Chapter 1

7  If it hadn't been for the gang, Johnny would never have known what love and affection are.

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Context   In Chapter 1

8  Dally had spent three years on the wild side of New York and had been arrested at the age of ten.

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Context   In Chapter 1

9  I had never been jumped, but I had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him, and it wasn't pretty.

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Context   In Chapter 1

10  I wouldn't have felt so embarrassed if they had been greasy girls--- I might even have helped old Dallas.

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Context   In Chapter 2

11  He had been hunting our football to practice a few kicks when a blue Mustang had pulled up beside the lot.

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Context   In Chapter 2

12  He had been a real popular guy in school; he was captain of the football team and he had been voted Boy of the Year.

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Context   In Chapter 1

13  He had been arrested, he got drunk, he rode in rodeos, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids--- he did everything.

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Context   In Chapter 1

14  If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny.

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Context   In Chapter 1

15  If it had been me, or Two-Bit, or Soda or Steve, or anyone but Johnny, Dally would have flattened him without a moment's hesitation.

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Context   In Chapter 2

16  But he had been talking about girls like Sylvia and the girls he and Dally and the rest picked up at drive-ins and downtown; he never said anything about Socy girls.

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Context   In Chapter 2

17  And it really had been funny, because Two-Bit was half crocked when he gave me the lecture, and he told me some stories that about made me want to crawl under the floor or something.

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Context   In Chapter 2