Example sentences of "[pron] be like come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do those people at unemployment offices know what it 's like to come face to face with them ? ’ said Sharon . |
| 2 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I come from a booky family , in some ways I 've taken writing for granted — it 's like coming from a family of butchers and going into the meat trade . |
| 4 | It 's like coming into a hospital . ’ |
| 5 | It was like coming on stage in a theatre , out of the dark wings into warmth and light . |
| 6 | Coming into it was like coming home on a bitter cold day to a bright , leaping fire . |
| 7 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 8 | It was like coming across an embarrassing old photograph of herself . |
| 9 | It was like coming home . |
| 10 | It was like coming home . |
| 11 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 12 | It was like coming to harbour after a rough passage — with an armful of comfort to hand . |