Example sentences of "that [pron] be [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | If some of you have had bad experiences with other ‘ Amway people ’ let me promise that I am not like that ! |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll just have to accept that I am not like other girls , ’ she said lightly . |
| 3 | I do n't think so because I 'm not really like that and people who know me know that I 'm not like that . |
| 4 | If I got on me high horse every time somebody hinted that I was n't like Betty Grable , I would have ridden to hell long before this . ’ |
| 5 | If it turns out that she is not like her husband linguistically , the difference is not treated like the difference between miners and public schoolboys . |
| 6 | I doubt that she is much like the real Gertrude Lawrence but she is decidedly a class act . |
| 7 | She could remember the times when she had patronisingly tried to include some wallflower into a party , inwardly breathing a sigh of relief that she was n't like that . |
| 8 | She knew it was snobbish , that she was just like any other package holiday-maker . |
| 9 | ‘ And because of that application form , Matthew thinks that you 're just like me — that you 'll stretch the rules a bit to get what you want . |
| 10 | They 'll see that we 're just like them . |
| 11 | We try to pretend that sex is n't so important , that we are just like everyone else , just as we sought to distance ourselves from books like The Milkman 's On His Way during the Section 28 debates . |
| 12 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 13 | They are sucking up to you because they never grew up , and they never grew up because ( if men ) they are ashamed that they are not like me or ( if women ) have never been admitted into full womanhood by being slathered with Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |
| 14 | The promoters tell us that it 's not like a book in which someone is telling you something . |
| 15 | Having accepted the fact that your body is a machine for which you do not have the manual , and that it is not like anyone else 's body , what can you do about it ? |
| 16 | But we can now see that it is n't like that at all . |
| 17 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 18 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 19 | Marjorie had opened the long sash windows and pushed the table near them , so that it was almost like eating in the garden . |
| 20 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 21 | They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders . |
| 22 | Father Watson had been more than a little frightened by it , and had confided in the nuns that it was more like something produced by some mechanical contrivance , than by a human being . |
| 23 | It does n't matter that he 's not like them . |
| 24 | But everyone knows from hearing and seeing him , that he 's more like their dad : hard-working , dour and driven . |
| 25 | you know , that he 's actually like that . |
| 26 | More than anything else Alexei knew that he was not like his father , and could never belong here . |
| 27 | The Pharisee , Jesus said , thanked God that he was not like the Publican or any other lesser mortal . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
| 29 | What we did n't realise at the time was that one of the main reasons that Malcolm was so keen on John was that he was so like Richard Hell — who was one of Malcolm s mates in New York . |
| 30 | She set the time and was too happy to notice that he was more like a man listening to a door close than one going towards his joy . |