Example sentences of "[verb] it [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 2 | When you forty pee it 's like eight pounds |
| 3 | Did you know it was like a hundred and ten . |
| 4 | There was such stillness in him that when he moved it was like something dead had come alive again . |
| 5 | Well , I mean , say it 's like that where you just polishing with a cloth or something |
| 6 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 7 | But as i say it was like that for two or three years . |
| 8 | And then when I came to What Do You Want it was like an whole new world had opened up to me . |
| 9 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
| 10 | Oh it was terrible when Jackie went in , god her , her leg it was like two of my legs |
| 11 | It was D E F , DEF it was like , like the |
| 12 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 13 | Bible says it 's like a vapour . ’ |
| 14 | Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out . |
| 15 | She says it 's like standing on the edge of a crevasse . |
| 16 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
| 17 | He says it 's like that . |
| 18 | cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ? |
| 19 | Pevsner says it is like an overgrown bungalow and with its generous lawns breaks up the texture of the old High Street and the adjacent 18th century Magnolia House . |
| 20 | He says it was like a romance . |
| 21 | He says it was like Aliens in space , no one can hear you scream . |
| 22 | He says it was like a football mob . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's precisely what I imagine it 's like , Sonic Youth playing over a Mondays track , ’ agrees Hugo , as Sam starts espousing the virtues of ‘ Bummed ’ and how ‘ the best bands do n't know what their appeal is ’ . |
| 24 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 25 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
| 26 | When you backshift it 's like the chain 's come off so I just use the rear brake to settle the suspension and stop the rear end from going crazy . ’ |
| 27 | Look it 's like a slide . |
| 28 | Look it 's like a magnet for your knob . |
| 29 | I suppose when babies learn to walk it 's like this — you know , one foot in front of the other real slow and wobbly . |
| 30 | ‘ When he get 's going it 's like striking gold just to get the service from him . ’ |