Example sentences of "be like [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " We 're like all rabbits — happiest in a crowd . |
| 32 | ‘ You 're like all the rest , ’ he said with disappointment , reading her helplessness with humiliating ease . |
| 33 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |
| 34 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |
| 35 | They 're like another hair . |
| 36 | I think you 're like some disgusting little animal , some creature from another planet . |
| 37 | ‘ You 're like some beautiful sea nymph … ’ he whispered softly in her ear , his hands protectively holding her slim body as , half standing and half floating in the water , she wound her arms about his neck . |
| 38 | You 're like some bitter clone of the Fernando I once knew . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ It 's no good talking when you 're like this . |
| 40 | ‘ I do n't like you when you 're like this , ’ he said sulking . |
| 41 | Do n't go along the road trying to keep yourself a nice separation distance and as soon as the tail end of another lorry has passed you flash him in and then you 're like this . |
| 42 | You 're boring when you 're like this . |
| 43 | And he 'd say , Oh they 're like this . |
| 44 | It 's because we 're like this — because of our people — that Courtaulds is successful . |
| 45 | Ah they they 're a laugh , they 're like this there 's one of them to this |
| 46 | You 're like this all the time ! |
| 47 | Aubergines. little aubergines , they 're like this . |
| 48 | right , and I mean they , they 're talking to you right and all the time they 're like this themselves like . |
| 49 | It depends on your lifestyle you live , though , cos I got friends who are just like ah , I do n't like and you have to excuse my hairy legs running or something , I mean , I just like they 're like this , and they 've got like black hair about this long , and I 'm like oh my God , oh my God , you 're just like |
| 50 | You 're like these dames who see two knives crossed on the table , then start a row to prove it 's a bad sign . |
| 51 | No it 's not , those erm they 're like those leggings it 's |
| 52 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 53 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 54 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 55 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 56 | Worrying his head off , scratching about for the rent , weathering one disappointment after another — it seems to have been like that all the way . |
| 57 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 58 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 59 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 60 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |