Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're pushing it like crazy . |
| 2 | They 're getting them like prison officers and policeman and |
| 3 | But when they 're doing these welding jobs they have n't got them on those things so as they 're doing it like it 's all moving and |
| 4 | you 're leaving it like that then ? |
| 5 | It 's chamber music , to all intents and purposes , and they 're receiving it like a home run . |
| 6 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 7 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 8 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 9 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 10 | ‘ We shall be treating them like a Premier League side . ’ |
| 11 | Decide on an Apex and within a week you 'll be treating it like a good friend . |
| 12 | I 'm doing them like that . |
| 13 | Everyone will be avoiding us like the plague if we take this there with us ! |
| 14 | He seemed to be watching her like a hawk , waiting for some reaction . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 16 | What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this . |
| 17 | ‘ They were pressing us like hell to sign , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 18 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 19 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 20 | I am fondling her like a memory , in the way you stroke a cat : knowing it 's there , glad it 's purring , but letting thoughts wander like your fingers tickling the fur . |
| 21 | He is using them like puppets . |
| 22 | what you can do is wind it like that and the hose winds up . |
| 23 | That one 's get it like that red well that number 's moved . |
| 24 | It 's treating him like a kid of five or six year old is n't it ? |
| 25 | During the filming of another sea-going saga , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 version ) , Charles Laughton upstaged Gable , who complained to director Frank Lloyd , ‘ Laughton 's treating me like an extra . |
| 26 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |
| 27 | Some of these same men now say the Army is treating them like ‘ dirt ’ and is trying to force them out of a job . |
| 28 | He 's undergoing laser treatment but as everybody will point out to you , when he 's in the Tardis and he 's operating the computer , even with his glasses on , he 's reading it like this . |
| 29 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 30 | is write it like that . |