Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [is] like " in BNC.

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1 Or is it that she 's like Barbara Hervey ?
2 ( Pauline whispers that it 's like World Party . )
3 But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there .
4 It 's such a want when they have been there so long , that it 's like losing a human being .
5 When you grow up you realize that it 's like the icing on a cake .
6 The cars are so close together in the street that it 's like a river .
7 Erm right , difficult one that it 's like the body language after what ? looking at do some work .
8 John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team .
9 So that it 's like erm , a dough
10 And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that .
11 One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings .
12 That it is like the mind itself .
13 It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity .
14 It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’
15 To represent the dependence of the world upon God it is a classic error to suggest that it is like a car that requires an initial shove down the street and thereafter runs of its own accord .
16 The square has recently been renovated although people complain that it is like a film set and the houses are still crumbling behind their façades .
17 We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes .
18 Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton .
19 One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet .
20 If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore .
21 In that he 's like his great-grandfather . ‘
22 ‘ Is it just that he is like you ? ’
23 Alex believes that he is like his idol in one major way determination .
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