Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The old lady was like that , big-bloody-hearted . |
| 32 | The other act was like some unsavoury childhood ritual . |
| 33 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 34 | When they got back to New York , to the new apartment , she would make sure that their home was like that . |
| 35 | Her fall was like those many riders experience all the time . |
| 36 | Hart , in criticising Devlin 's position , suggested that his conception of morality was like that of a ‘ seamless web ’ where attacks on one part were seen as threatening the life of the whole . |
| 37 | The harsh question was like another slap in the face . |
| 38 | And all three people in my opinion are like that . |
| 39 | Fitzgerald 's oleander-worship and longing for rain are like those ‘ survivals ’ Eliot discussed in 1917 . |
| 40 | God 's laws of nature were like those of the Medes and the Persians , which changed not ; but they were not necessary laws which could not have been otherwise . |
| 41 | ‘ Tug o ’ war is like that lager they keep advertising , ’ he says . |
| 42 | His job is like that of a matador brought on to pitch final one or two innings when Oakland have the lead and need to kill off any opposition rally . |
| 43 | My grandma 's like that . |
| 44 | If you knows like how my big cock , my Dad 's cock 's like this . |
| 45 | Unfortunately human nature is like that ! |
| 46 | Insight is like that : the quality of attentiveness must not be spoilt by our getting in the way of it — by the wrong kind of effort or by anxiety and feelings of self-doubt . |
| 47 | I like the automatic when it 's a , your on hill 's like this . |
| 48 | P'raps heaven is like this , thought Willie to himself . |
| 49 | The Kingdom of Heaven is like this . |
| 50 | The effect of the corporation tax is like that of an excise tax , and the considerations we have just discussed apply with equal force . |
| 51 | In Norman Jay 's words , ‘ The record business is like any other business ; it 's there to sell product and make money … ’ |
| 52 | ‘ Daddy 's like that . |
| 53 | My husband 's like that , okay ? |
| 54 | For some people — Russians and Germans among them — the Second World War was like that . |
| 55 | When it came , her reaction was like that of Grant — that it was a boot ; part of a sub-aquatic suit . |
| 56 | The chateau was like many of its kind , stained by war here and there when the English ( or the Goddamns , as the French call us ) had tried to conquer Northern France , nothing remarkable . |
| 57 | There was a risk that he might overstrain and enlarge his heart : he told one visitor that the sensation was like that of " harbouring some runaway machine " . |
| 58 | is , there was a big blanket over the door then as you sit here their room was like all the way round to you , and I sat there and the stairs come down , the open stairs come into the room and here is an old brick fire place |
| 59 | This room was like that : oak panelled , plushly carpeted , lined with portraits , slightly musty . |
| 60 | The room was like any other in the wealthier Cairo houses : carpets on the wall , tiles on the floor , low divans , cushions and very little furniture of any other sort . |