Example sentences of "[subord] they were like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 2 | You know , so they were like , they were like bullets ! |
| 3 | But this silliness does not derive from what I claimed about what it means to have successful thoughts : it derives from our habit of regarding individual thoughts as if they were like sentences . |
| 4 | Apart from looking into market deals and reports of cheques being repeatedly endorsed and passed around as if they were like cash , Inland Revenue investigators have been checking if farmers have undedeclared Government grant payments . |
| 5 | Patrick Kelly kissed her back , then caressed her breasts , biting the nipples gently , pulling them up with his lips , until they were like tiny pyramids in his mouth . |
| 6 | He liked being with Steve and Paul because they were like his bit of rough . |
| 7 | I 'd blacked my eyebrows till they were like tarmac , I 'd put raspberry-coloured gloss thick on my lips and I 'd done my eyelids in a limey shade of green . |
| 8 | He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's . |
| 9 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 10 | When they were like Jack what 's his name ? |
| 11 | The nicest things — well , I just like it when the programmes are mentioned casually , in passing , almost as though they were like one of the elements . |