Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 2 | If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ? |
| 3 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 4 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 5 | When you grow up you realize that it 's like the icing on a cake . |
| 6 | Erm right , difficult one that it 's like the body language after what ? looking at do some work . |
| 7 | That it is like the mind itself . |
| 8 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 9 | It seemed that he was like the poet with his nosegay of visionary flowers : |