Example sentences of "[pron] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , Emma 's no slouch in the looks department , as you know , but this Cindy of yours is like — well , like something turned out by a machine . |
| 2 | You ca n't tell yours is like sandpaper . |
| 3 | After 'e 'as 'is tea 'e falls asleep in that chair an' 'e 's like that till it 's time for bed . |
| 4 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 5 | The most popular board on wheels , however , has been the speedsail , which is like an enormous skateboard some five feet long with air-filled tyres . |
| 6 | This feeling of the sound of the sea which is like the sound when a sea shell is placed to the ear , is experienced by many people in meditation . |
| 7 | Wheeziness which is like this and is worse ( < ) damp weather , better ( > ) sitting up and for fresh air . |
| 8 | Worse , if you have an astute sub-editor , or even a conscious one , he/she has a tendency to write all over your nice clean copy with a felt-tip , which is like having people tread on your geraniums . |
| 9 | My Fender now is comfortable for me because it 's the bass I started out with , and I 'm used to that neck width which is like a tree trunk . |
| 10 | ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA ! |
| 11 | As well as the fairly conventional scales we have seen so far , Joe also uses a couple of the more exotic types , such as the Hungarian minor , which is like a harmonic minor scale with a lowered 5th , and the very unusual Enigmatic scale ( listen to The Enigmatic to hear this . |
| 12 | For acoustics I 'm playing mainly Gibson reissues ; I 've got a Hummingbird , which is great , and a J-185 , which is like a small blonde Everly Brothers-style guitar . |
| 13 | I 've got a Small Stone phaser , a really old silver-coloured Big Muff fuzzbox , and a truly weird thing called The Zipper , which is like an early touch-wah . |
| 14 | So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody . |
| 15 | So far as I know , there is nothing anywhere which is like the sound Welsh people make when they talk about L loyd who lives at L landudno ! |
| 16 | There 's an Englishness about us , but there 's also so much about us which is American , like the haircuts and some of the clothes and the organ which is like Texas garage music . |
| 17 | Which is like my hair and skin . |
| 18 | Neutrinos are hard to detect : they interact so little with matter that they can probably float through entire galaxies without being affected ; they exist but have no mass nor any other physical property , which is like saying that they simultaneously exist and do not exist . |
| 19 | Decomposition is accelerated with the ComposTool , which is like a steel walking stick with two paddles on the end . |
| 20 | A proper budding knife will be required — a penknife is no good at all — which is like a planting trowel in that both ends are used and the handle is not just for holding in the hand . |
| 21 | He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past , and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong ( which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole ) to intercept the bird . |
| 22 | So is it almost like this thing which is like by by chance ? |
| 23 | But the concept of pain which I have acquired in this way is such as to be applicable to others , by simply supposing that they have a sensation which is like the one I have ( Mill : ‘ by supposing the link to be of the same nature ’ ) . |
| 24 | You have to start from a pain of yours and conceive of there being something like this which hurts but which does not hurt you , and also that there could be something which is like you but not you for such pains to hurt . |
| 25 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |
| 26 | While you 're there you have thirteen weeks down there , which is like three months , with th with the dog . |
| 27 | Jip and Zab 's father claims that computer logic , unlike human logic , ‘ ca n't cope with a word used in a figurative sense , or with humour , which depends on wordplay , which is like assigning two values to a character ’ ( 87 ) . |
| 28 | Second , he has a rare and profound understanding of how to relate the exigencies of budgets to the exigencies of opera production ( which is like relating fire to water ) . |
| 29 | Which is like the third of the tri-glossic |
| 30 | The digestive systems can be divided into the non-ruminants ( the zebra , which is like the horse ) and the ruminants ( wildebeest , topi , and gazelle , which are like the cow ) . |