Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be like [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
| 2 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
| 3 | I mean you 're like me , you want profession , you do n't just come out and throw it , like that , you see |
| 4 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 5 | I 'd thought she was like me , wanting but scared . |
| 6 | I know it 's like it 's like like the train station , is n't it ? |
| 7 | ‘ When you talked it was like you 'd just thought of it . |
| 8 | But I suppose it 's like us going over there and eating frogs ’ legs . ’ |
| 9 | We 'd never talked about that day , and we never again came near this old air shaft ; I do n't know what he might have done since but I 'd always assumed he was like me and just tried to forget about it , pretend it never happened . |
| 10 | He 's not , he 's I ca n't , he 's , I do n't think he 's like me . |
| 11 | Yeah I think everyone 's like me but they 're not , yeah ? |
| 12 | But I think she was like me she did n't really want to get rid of her baby . |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I was like you , ’ I said suddenly , still childish enough to speak like this , to say what I meant without recourse to subtlety . |
| 14 | It is still hard to say I am like him , like her , unlike her , unlike him , in this or that way . |
| 15 | He had a very well-developed but dry sense of humour which I often tried to copy and I think that is why people used to say I was like him . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but you said she was like you . ’ |
| 17 | I married you thinking you were like me . |