Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | And inside was what tha in the middle was like a bucket container , like er it was a , a , a , a kind of a mortar and you fired this mortar with a er a charge and it fired . |
| 2 | It became a rule of the ‘ Carry On ’ outfit that everything had to be filmed within spitting distance of Pinewood — and there were real sergeants to carry on the business of teaching them what life in the Army was like . |
| 3 | She had seen the little plastic bowls of grey water at the back of the hot-dog stall in which the woman rinsed her horrible cloth ; she knew what the lavatories in the park were like . |
| 4 | His influence in the breed was like a fresh wind blowing through the genetic pool . |
| 5 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 6 | The sexuality in the air was like a gauze backdrop in a theatre . |
| 7 | That dear silver dish in the sky is like an eye , guarding me . |
| 8 | The dark in the bar was like the darkness inside her : terrifying . |
| 9 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 10 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that the pilot 's drunkenness was so extreme and obvious that participating in the flight was like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation . |
| 11 | When they moved away from the fire to the outer rooms the steady constant drip of rain from the eaves in the silence was like peace falling . |
| 12 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 13 | I 've had four in the morning 's like this for more than fifteen years . |
| 14 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 15 | ‘ The thing is , ’ explains Derry , ‘ that women to us and women to you are two different things because women in the Forest are like something out of , uh , they 've all got that sort of hillbilly vibe about them . |
| 16 | ‘ Keeping a secret in the Manse is like hiding a fire under straw . |
| 17 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 18 | And I think most people in the Galaxy are like him . |