Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [prep] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've had to be like that all the time , otherwise you feel like you ai n't getting there , they 're getting the better of you , like … ’ cos you listen , do n't you , when you 've had the baby they are supposed to help you and advise you , so you take all their … but then you can only take so much , and you think these must be the mad ones , like . |
| 2 | Is you 've got ta be like that show in the West End where it 's gon na feel like the first time . |
| 3 | And so you 've got to be like a bloody monkey and you 've got to climb up the side of the van and climb along the side of the van without damaging any of the furniture right to the front to find the box to bring it back again . |
| 4 | You have to learn to be like a doctor or a nurse , detached , is n't it ? " |
| 5 | He likes them fresh but they 've got to be like virgins — you know , untouched . |
| 6 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 7 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 8 | it 's got ta be like that is it ? |
| 9 | It 's got to be like cuddling up to a cushion as well as doing that terrible , animal thing . |
| 10 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 11 | Not feeling it 's got to be like a furniture showroom to be comfortable … |