Example sentences of "[verb] [is] like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ? |
| 2 | The requirement that a candidate must get the support of 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party in order to stand is like asking someone to collect 13,000 nominations in a constituency before they can stand for parliament . |
| 3 | The sound of the four doors clunking is like rifle-bolts slamming home . |
| 4 | But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it |
| 5 | What you got ta do is like that . |
| 6 | Yeah but I mean I think the stuff , the stuff that I 've written is like rubbish , it 's like I du n no |
| 7 | And whether the Oare now gotten is like to prove richer or leaner than now it is , or to continue the same state of goodness that now it is in … |
| 8 | Alan says powerboating is like going down a hill in snow on a tin tray … its a bit punishing … shakes you about … he 's got a good throttle man and a good navigator |
| 9 | Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you 're going to paint . |
| 10 | Assuming it to be out there somewhere they have joined forces with the Utopians and Marxists and missed the fact that the spiritual galaxy for which they are searching is like the Milky Way . |
| 11 | ‘ Look 's like the base of a large shell or bomb , ’ replied one of the Commandos . |
| 12 | Look 's like a drawing . |
| 13 | it look 's like a wedding to me |
| 14 | Yeah , look 's like . |
| 15 | Well yeah look 's like that . |
| 16 | look 's like that an all , I want to know if it 's going in weekly or monthly |
| 17 | Asking a Frenchman how he votes is like asking him how much money he earns . |
| 18 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 19 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 20 | Cos append is like a path for data |
| 21 | If what you hear is like a field |
| 22 | It get 's like that every night now do n't it ? |
| 23 | Apples of gold referred to in the Bible — ‘ A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver ’ — are thought to have been apricots which abounded in the Holy Land and were introduced into Palestine from Armenia . |
| 24 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 25 | The enticement to covet is like the attraction of an enchanting perfume , one which turns out to be a delicious , attractive , sweet-tasting poison . |
| 26 | But what is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend . |
| 27 | Even for the world 's fittest men , riding up them and surviving is like being battered onto your hands and knees . |
| 28 | Learning to relax is like pulling a plug at the bottom of your stress glass , gradually the tension and stress drain away . |
| 29 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 30 | I don 's like to think of either of you digging in your heavy clay . |