Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story is like a battle between the storyteller 's mother and Death . |
| 2 | And yet this field was like every other since the archers had become the terrible force they were ; their part was done first , but nonetheless at the end it was seen to be the determining part . |
| 3 | This case is like the case in which I am lost in cloud and shout out , ‘ Here ’ to let my wife know where I am . |
| 4 | ‘ Just because this case is like it is , it 's essential that the government 's secret service is both judge and jury . |
| 5 | ‘ This car is like my nephew , ’ he said , ‘ because it is the daughter of my sons . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ This equipment is like a lighthouse sweeping up the hydrocarbons from all around it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | And , this cemetery is like , this , erm , George Eliot 's buried there , Karl Marx is buried there , |
| 8 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 9 | Yew , too — but this wood is like iron and will break or blunt your axe , your saw , and your spirit . |
| 10 | LISTENING TO this record is like hearing a whole ordinary album on the stereo of a passing BMW . |
| 11 | This record was like going on lots of blind dates with new people … |
| 12 | Amiss was stunned by the courtesy and curiously uplifted to find that not everyone in this establishment was like Colonel Fagg . |
| 13 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |
| 14 | " I admit this room 's like a daffodil in a crap-heap , " he conceded . |
| 15 | This room was like that : oak panelled , plushly carpeted , lined with portraits , slightly musty . |
| 16 | ‘ For him this place is like paradise . |
| 17 | ‘ Christ , this place is like an icebox ! |
| 18 | This place is like a morgue . ’ |
| 19 | This place is like a labyrinth , she thought with a sudden shiver , as yet another door opened in front of her . |
| 20 | This place was like the garden of Eden , she thought whimsically , and she did n't know if the job here was a serpent 's temptation or a golden apple . |
| 21 | Because this day is like no other . |
| 22 | This game is like Simon Says . |
| 23 | This sadness is like the sea and is claiming me ; I am gone . |
| 24 | But the foundations for this belief were like the Cheshire Cat in Alice of Wonderland ; the more one looked at them , the less substance they seemed to have . |
| 25 | ‘ The way I see this song is like , I 'm an alien on this planet … ’ he continues , worryingly . |
| 26 | John Motson once said ‘ This man is like a little human dynamo . |
| 27 | ‘ This scream is like the body of a burning aeroplane crackling , cracking . |
| 28 | This vision is like that which Eliot praised in his childhood favourite , Kipling , whose Puck of Pook 's Hill and Rewards and Fairies particularly ‘ give at once a sense of the antiquity of England , of the number of generations and peoples who have labored the soil and in turn been buried beneath it , and of the contemporaneity of the past ’ . |
| 29 | This thought was like a barb that hurt more than she cared to admit . |
| 30 | Her role on this tour is like a cross between wet nurse and human sponge , indulging whims and soaking up all of Courtney 's excess bullshit . |