Example sentences of "like [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yorkshire pudding , I had to use them up did n't I , cos I do n't like eggs laid about , you know , I do n't like them being there a lot |
| 2 | Did n't like she was more the career girl was n't she , I think ? |
| 3 | Mhm is is that the same for everything else around the city that you do n't like you 're quite happy to just knock it down would you and take it away somewhere else ? |
| 4 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 5 | Well , we 've I would like we 're basically giving you all your cow requirement and all your oil requirement . |
| 6 | I do n't like her being there , and I 'm lonely on my own . |
| 7 | To admit to liking it was definitely an even bigger one . |
| 8 | But that 's a shame when they do n't like it is n't it ? |
| 9 | I do n't like it being very stuffy . |
| 10 | The plight of the aptly named Victim and hundreds like them was n't enough to deter Steven Morrissey into a search for everyday employment . |
| 11 | Like I was just a shadow , or a dog he does n't have to talk to . |
| 12 | Ive no reason to get carried away myself … just like I was nt all doom and gloom before the Oldham match . |
| 13 | Like I 'm just a friend . |
| 14 | That 's the shape I like I 'm quite upset now about . |
| 15 | Like I 'm still a boy . |
| 16 | At the Hard Rock Cafe , London , Mr Brooke admitted he did not know the full repertoire of the band , famous for hits like I 'm Too Sexy and Deeply Dippy . |
| 17 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 18 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 19 | ‘ We like you being here . |
| 20 | I have recently done this myself and like you was very puzzled as to why my armhole was not the depth I had measured . |
| 21 | We are free to give time to those who are like ourselves , or like we were once , or like we shall be one day . ’ |
| 22 | It was just like we were back in the cell , sitting down , having a chat and a roll-up . |
| 23 | As You Like It is also very British — it mixes ages and accents and acting styles enough to suggest an island-full of people falling in and out of love , or at least bumping into each other . |
| 24 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 25 | As You Like It was then a very new play and Morley 's is not the only piece of theatre music preserved in these song-books . |
| 26 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 27 | I think that people like us are up for grabs anyway . |
| 28 | It was the second time that Kate had had dinner at his house , and he was finding that he liked her being around . |
| 29 | out for me and erm , when he went in on Monday , erm it was the other one the lad that actually owns it , so I was in there for about bloody half an hour and we came home with some samples and one that I quite liked it was up on the wall and he said that is my best selling Axminster that I had , and it was like , it was maybe it was a bit too busy , it was , it was greyey and it was all different other colours in it , but it was a lot of flowers on it , it was n't a traditional Axminster you see Mike loves these traditional Axminsters and he does n't really , he wo n't really entertain anything else , erm , anyway I brought that sample home and what else ? |
| 30 | And the reason it likes you is not because of the bucket of wild oats you bring but because it thinks you are a horse too . |