Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there . |
| 2 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 3 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 4 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |
| 5 | Erm right , difficult one that it 's like the body language after what ? looking at do some work . |
| 6 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 7 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 8 | Or is it that she 's like Barbara Hervey ? |