Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be like [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just at present I 'm like you , an orphan of the storm . |
| 2 | Red car it 's like ours is n't it ? |
| 3 | I 've got grandma 's old sewing machine which was like ours , but it worked |
| 4 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |
| 5 | It is not just a great city ; it is , or rather was , a great port and shipbuilding city , and that matters in understanding it and the places which are like it . |
| 6 | By the nature of the case , the hypothesis that other apparent persons enjoy feelings which are like ours but which are necessarily unobservable by us is not one that we could have any evidence against . |
| 7 | This Cartesian illusion is directly linked with the universal belief that " we " ( people like us ) can be distinguished from " they " ( people who are like us in external form but not like us in their inner essence ) . |
| 8 | I just wonder how many more people there are like them . |
| 9 | Unstoppable , and so tailor-made for success it 's like them lying there , legs akimbo , waiting for the major companies to come in and shag the ass off them . |
| 10 | C. It 's like you have to be sorry for her all the time . |