Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [adv] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she almost dreamily let her fingers trail over Julius 's smooth and supple skin , she felt the hard heat of him against her palms , and it was astonishing how right it seemed that they should be together like this . |
| 2 | If the continuity of the voicing is broken , however , the pitch pattern might be more like this : |
| 3 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 4 | He had always been so scathing about psychiatrists and psychotherapists , emphatic that she was normal , that she would be just like any other mother once she had a child of her own . |
| 5 | Common sense ought to have told him that Marie 's reaction would be just like this : quiet and resigned . |
| 6 | But the actual letter appointing the consultant and the actual payment of the fee will be just like any other contractor . |
| 7 | I ca n't guarantee it will be exactly like that , but you must have got the picture . |
| 8 | But for one Chilean exile , Andres Valenzuela , Thursday will be much like any other day — long , boring and lonely . |
| 9 | The relationship between the LEA and the governing body as far as the buildings are concerned will be very like that of landlord and tenant . |