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 . ’ |