Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night as I 'm going to sleep all I could smell was like ashtray , you know ! |
| 2 | But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it |
| 3 | I wondered what I would have been like if Lili had been my mother , but it was impossible to imagine Lili in the depths of maternity . |
| 4 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 5 | I tried to picture what she must have been like , the young woman who had diligently allowed her life to fade away working at this solitary chore . |
| 6 | I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ? |
| 7 | She 'd have been like the Mercedes , another symbol of his wealth and authority . |
| 8 | She can afford be like that . |
| 9 | The low hills you can see are like islands surrounded by the marsh . |
| 10 | We could have been like George Sand and Chopin ; greater than them ! and Gustave insists on disappearing for three months with that ambitious catamite of his . |
| 11 | Do you imagine that we are the way we are about money because of mother or because we would have been like that anyway ? ’ |
| 12 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 13 | He could only speculate what they would have been like in colour . |
| 14 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 15 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 16 | For the chick , it must have been like suddenly landing in the Sahara . |
| 17 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 18 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 19 | As I picked my way through the frozen woods towards the observation post which commands a unique view over the former battle-ground of the Marne , I wondered what it must have been like to be a soldier . |
| 20 | For shareholders , it must have been like winning the pools . |
| 21 | Something like that , it must have been like that . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |
| 23 | It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed . |
| 24 | ‘ For inspiration I researched what it must have been like when , after one or two volleys of musket-fire were exchanged , everybody was hacking at everybody else with edged weapons . |
| 25 | I tried , for the first time in my life , to understand what it must have been like then , under tsarist rule , where people , peasants , were no more than livestock , to be dealt with by the aristocracy as they saw fit . |
| 26 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 27 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 28 | It must have been like that for Euturpia , when she was turned out to the cabana . |
| 29 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been like Hell in here , ’ said Jimmy . |