Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun sg] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 2 | I have two rules with pruning ornamental shrubs : if the shrub is like jasmine or forsythia and flowers before midsummer , prune it as soon as the flowers have faded . |
| 3 | We are justified in using it for a quality of material things only if the quality is like the bodily sensation . |
| 4 | ‘ I was bowled over because the guy was like a God to me . |
| 5 | Y y you 're absolutely right that there is some doubt about this was really whether the countryside was like this . |
| 6 | It was to be known whether the mines " are like to continue as they have been , & whether the Oare is like to continue at the same rate it hath been at , and whether it be of the same goodness as it hath been . " |
| 7 | The dark bit when the moon is like that is furthest away from you . |
| 8 | yeah well it did did n't it when the weather 's like that |
| 9 | So how do you manage to be cheerful all the time , even when the weather 's like this ? |