Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [be] like " in BNC.

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1 How I remember outside is like the end of a erm O U T spells out .
2 Well in the fifties , forty years of age was hugely old , I mean my dad at forty when I remember back was like a really old man at forty in those days .
3 I 've always been like that .
4 I 've always been like that .
5 I 've always been like that .
6 I 've always been like that .
7 As I say , I 've always been like it that far for ages .
8 The complex patterns you get now are like pictograms .
9 She 's always been like that though .
10 The shock of him going off was like a physical blow .
11 Yes they 've always been like that and they always will be like that .
12 He has always been like this .
13 He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’
14 It has always been like that .
15 If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that .
16 It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all .
17 But it had n't been like that .
18 It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen …
19 It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl .
20 It had always been like that .
21 I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that .
22 So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ?
23 Even if 95 per cent of it 's rubbish — and it 's usually been like that — the other five per cent is always going to be enough .
24 It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’
25 Maybe it 's always been like this
26 No it 's always been like that .
27 well it never has done I mean that , it 's always been like that I 've never had
28 He 's not been like that for a long time . ’
29 And he 's always been like that .
30 ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’
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