Example sentences of "[pers pn] are like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them are like a lot of old women . ’ |
| 2 | Mm , some of , a lot of them are like that |
| 3 | I mean the majority of them now it 's not even worth them stopping , and I mean , most of them are like in their eighties and not , er eighties and there 's like the amount of damage they 've done |
| 4 | ‘ But just between you and me and SHE magazine , her Majesty and I are like that , ‘ said Dame Edna , indicating a royal chumminess that went beyond mere Commonwealth ties . |
| 5 | ‘ Yury Vladimirovich is my closest friend , he and I are like two brothers , we used to play football together when we were little . |
| 6 | In the temple he launched another violent attack , punctuated with the ritual curse , seven times repeated , ‘ Woe unto you , scribes and Pharisees , hypocrites ! ’ , including this devastating metaphor : ‘ for ye are like unto whited sepulchres , which indeed appear beautiful outward , but are within full of dead men 's bones , and of all uncleanness ’ . |
| 7 | In effect , you are like all those in the lifeboat — cosy , complacent and unwilling to give up their privileged position . |
| 8 | ‘ You are like a child on a birthday . |
| 9 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You are like the wild cat , you are not in it , ’ meaning that present-day-wild cats have become so inter-bred with domestic cats , they are no longer pure : like Scots who have lost their native tongue . |
| 11 | And all you are like a darkness around it ; |
| 12 | ‘ You are like him in that respect ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You are like him , ’ she said quite distinctly . |
| 14 | Where you keep the major portion of your money also depends upon what additional services you are like to require from your ‘ bank ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You are like Pontius Pilate , ’ I shouted at him . |
| 16 | If you are like me , and feel hopelessly inadequate having toiled to the top of your favourite peak in what seemed to be ‘ the worst weather I 've seen for years , ’ only to come across a party equipped with jeans , trainers , and Tescos bags , then the Mourne Mountains are for you . |
| 17 | Emotionally and behaviourally , how do you think you are like or unlike your mother and father ? |
| 18 | Why do you think you are like this ? |
| 19 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 20 | ‘ You are like Montaine , ’ Otto said . |
| 21 | Are racial double standards ( viz. , good/bad natives ) and double binds ( damned if you are different and damned if you are like the master race ) a function of this contradictory or dual relation to the Other ? |
| 22 | Why , the two of you are like recluses out of some dated European movie . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps you are like him , James , my son ? |
| 24 | If we if they were n't as quick as you are like that working that out what you could try is say well I 've given them one each there 's the four people one two three four right you 've all got a whole one so you can start eating that while I sort out how I 'm gon na share this out . |
| 25 | You are like a porcupine . |
| 26 | The intrusive Boswell then took another liberty — ; that of pointing out to Johnson ‘ that he very often sat quite silent for a long time , even when in company with only a single friend ’ , at which Johnson reminded Boswell of an acquaintance who had once observed , ‘ Sir , you are like a ghost : you never speak till you are spoken to . ’ |
| 27 | Write about what you are like as a reader now : your interests , your favourite kind of reading , favourite authors , your strengths and weaknesses , how much you read at home , where and when you like reading , your ambitions as a reader . |
| 28 | But what I ca n't do is to look back and saying you 've been , you are like this now but |
| 29 | Listen , you are like the blonde mistress of Heine , the poet Heine , wenig Fleisch , sehr Viel Gemüt , little body , but so much spirit " . |
| 30 | ‘ You are like a cat , waiting to be petted , wanting my hands on you . |