Example sentences of "[pron] be like [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it says is Man deþ swá hé byþ þonne hé mót swá hé wile , ‘ Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes ’ , or more colloquially ‘ you show what you 're like when you can do what you like ’ . |
| 2 | If this is what you 're like when you are anxious I would n't like to wait for you when you 're not . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , she had confidence in her voice , but what would she be like when she got out there in front of that terrible voracious animal , the audience ? |
| 4 | You know what it 's like when they retire , do n't you ? |
| 5 | Yer know what it 's like when we 're on bonus . ’ |
| 6 | Look what it 's like when we 're making deliveries . |
| 7 | It 's like when I finished those songs , I felt an incredible sense of boredom , ‘ Oh , now I 'm done . ' ’ |
| 8 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
| 9 | It 's like when you hear on the news that there 's been a threemile pile-up on the M1 . |
| 10 | It 's not long before he 's trying to explain the telepathic communities that will flourish after the apocalypse to me and offering this example : ‘ It 's like when you fancy someone , and you know you 're going to go with that person . |
| 11 | You know what it 's like when you move house . |
| 12 | It 's like when you increase the tension on a spring : the pressure is straining to be released . |
| 13 | It 's like when you see a lovely lady and you get a knock-back you feel sick , but if a beautiful girl says , ‘ Yes ’ to you — boom you 're away . |
| 14 | ‘ Can you imagine what it 's like when it 's really hot out here ? ’ |
| 15 | It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’ |
| 16 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
| 17 | Dot remembered what it was like when she had felt so ill and confused . |
| 18 | It was like when she was eight , and Dead Daddy put her on Hero-9 to keep her under control . |
| 19 | It was like when you had that part in Z-Cars . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't remember what it was like when I did . ’ |
| 21 | It was like nowhere she had ever been before . |
| 22 | It simply went to his head — you know what he was like when he left . ’ |