Example sentences of "i be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long have I been like this ? ’ she asked in one interval . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Yury Vladimirovich is my closest friend , he and I are like two brothers , we used to play football together when we were little . |
| 4 | Abbot was knocked sideways with delight , and wrote to Repton , ‘ I am like the possessor of some gem of inestimable value and beauty , concealed in a casket … . |
| 5 | I am like the cow at the sea shore , bound by the motion of the waves . |
| 6 | I am like the child spell-bound by the accumulated powers of the night , — darkness , the sound of silence , loneliness , infinite possibility , all mingled in a vast horror . |
| 7 | I am like the leaves and flowers of ikebana , with roots cut off , stuck in a spiked metal holder ( kenzan ) instead of in the earth . |
| 8 | I am like unto a leper here with all faces turned against me except your kind friend Miss Blagden and now she is gone too . |
| 9 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 10 | I am like the Negro , I just go on . |
| 11 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 12 | I am like the painter of that mosaic , the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help . |
| 13 | ‘ I am like everybody else — hard up . |
| 14 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 15 | I never had such a thing before , and I am like a child when it comes to running water . |
| 16 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Since I am like to be murdered for it , I had better know the tune ! ’ |
| 18 | I am like a David to their Goliath . |
| 19 | I am like a spectre in his house , come to claim his soul . |
| 20 | I am like a lonely child , unattended in the attic . |
| 21 | He thinks : " I am like a pool … some tide has filled me , the sand is swirling , the waters are obscured and strange things are creeping out of the cracks and crannies in my mind " ( p. 227 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I am like Gordon Strachan , kept going by a fear of life without playing football . |
| 23 | ‘ I am like Gordon Strachan , kept going by a fear of life without football . |
| 24 | Well no but I do n't to think I am like that with Jonathan . |
| 25 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 26 | ‘ Why ca n't I be like some of them girls ! ’ |
| 27 | Why should I be like this ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm like the man who builds St Paul 's Cathedral out of matchsticks , ’ he says . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're the breeze and I 'm like the aspen tree , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |