Example sentences of "[adv] it be like " in BNC.
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| 31 | But doing this , you know , what ever it 's like , it , the other one was hopeless |
| 32 | for the feathers to open out , like it 's like wax . |
| 33 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 34 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 35 | In a world where so much was staged artificially it was like a breath of fresh air and Harriet experienced her very own glow of excitement and triumph . |
| 36 | ‘ Eleven years later it was like a dream come true when I played my first game for the club and he was still in goal . |
| 37 | a friend of mine , a friend of mine lives in Beirut like erm apparently now though it 's like , I mean Beirut , parts of Beirut are getting like Beverley Hills |
| 38 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 39 | In Glasgow now it 's like the Continent . |
| 40 | Now it 's like robbing Peter to pay Paul , you 're not living you 're just existing . |
| 41 | But now it 's like that part never happened , we 're just one big happy family . |
| 42 | Now it was like Wimbledon . |
| 43 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 44 | There 's there is often something on distance time graphs and also quite often it 's like that . |
| 45 | But today it 's like a ghost town . |
| 46 | Well it is like that all over the country though in n it ? |
| 47 | Well it 's like a big lever and it has a , at the bottom it has a bar which the very high tensile steel is fixed into . |
| 48 | Well it 's like concrete . |
| 49 | Well it 's like a square hole is n't it ? |
| 50 | Well it 's like erm , the store instructors are supposed have trained them on those specific things , |
| 51 | Yeah and Ann was on about it you see and I said oh well some noisy bloody neighbours and I and I said oh well it 's like your telly in n it ! |
| 52 | Well it 's like th it 's like the erm oh God ! |
| 53 | Well it 's like , like a all you want to do is |
| 54 | He bought the girls a bloody great not , well it 's like that sort of thing but it 's a big one . |
| 55 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 56 | Well it 's like Fay . |
| 57 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 58 | Well it 's like all these got these of life in it , come out what 'll happen to her , the first thing they do is turn to God . |
| 59 | Well it 's like , it 's like Richard today , he goes well what , well what are Labour gon na do for us ? |
| 60 | Well it 's like those lads that time who tried to nick a snooker table , they got it , they got it about a hundred yards |