Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying mine on , I found that the trousers were several inches too short , the shirt was missing most of its buttons and the beret was like a sleeping bag . |
| 2 | I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’ |
| 3 | The noise and the shock were like an explosion . |
| 4 | It was a sunny day and the sky was like a new sheet of blotting paper with blue ink tipped into the middle of it . |
| 5 | By the time they become experienced buyers , they will realise that the partnership between them and the lender is like a marriage — it 's not that easily broken ! |
| 6 | Sirens are wailing , and the shouting is like at Millwall when the team 's gone to sleep . |
| 7 | There was a strong smell of fuel , and the water was like ice round my feet as I pushed the boat out before jumping in … ’ |
| 8 | The heating had been off over the weekend , and the office was like an ice-box . |
| 9 | You know at the top it was like sloping down here and the car 's like this and I 'm having to try and get the car back down without it toppling over and it was an abs |
| 10 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 11 | Wind muttered in the marram grass ; the tide was out , and the estuary was like a hollow hand spread to receive the night . |
| 12 | She was able to describe in minute detail her clothes , her home and even what the fishing boats and the harbour were like . |
| 13 | Sometimes in the evenings I would hear myself laughing , and the sound was like wind passing over an empty vessel . |
| 14 | Erm and the place is like Fort Knox at the moment , cos it 's got double sort of ten lever locks on every door , because somebody was pilfering from there , |
| 15 | but it was terrible I was screaming , I was terrified and , and , and I can still see the place you know , there 's something very foreboding about the , the place and the chair was like a |
| 16 | The fox is him and the forest is like his life and everything going on around him . |
| 17 | and the house is like a tip ! |
| 18 | In fact , Rich sounds remarkably like a woman in this one , and the band are like a piss-poor Jethro Tull with Marvin Gaye 's drummer popping away in the background . |
| 19 | ‘ But the universe is like that , too . ’ |
| 20 | Hot pesto bread sounded good , but the pesto was like mayonnaise . |
| 21 | he says his daughter 's here from South Africa with her little'un , she 's married to a Paki , but the marriage is like that . |