Example sentences of "[conj] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman that is like a German clock , |
| 2 | Corinthian philistinism , more real though less notorious than Theban , is part of something deeper and more disturbing : she had no ideology to offer , nothing that is like Athenian paideia or Spartan agoge , ‘ culture ’ and ‘ discipline ’ respectively . |
| 3 | At last a technology that is like our dreams . |
| 4 | ‘ Trying to get a little love on the subject , that 's what I was doing on ‘ Ragged Glory ’ , exploring this neighbourhood that 's like a valley or something . |
| 5 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 6 | Er er in hole that 's like that and you 're grabbing out , well you 're only making a hole and fill in again but they into that one place do n't they |
| 7 | In commercial terms that 's like committing suicide but in artistic terms it 's been much more fulfilling . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll buy one for myself , but I do n't want anything that 's like , mega-expensive or highly intri |
| 9 | Mummy that 's like an |
| 10 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 11 | The astonishing bed has a fan-like bed-head and is like a building in itself with built-in spotlights , hi-fi , and telephone . |
| 12 | Lockstitch is used to loosely hold linings to curtains and is like a long loose blanket stitch . |
| 13 | The other regional feature of the exterior displayed here is the fish-tail roofing of turrets and lantern , which has an oriental appearance and is like that at Fontevrault kitchen ( 276 ) and Angoulême Cathedral ( 273 and 376 ) , also the Spanish Cathedral of Zamora ( 316 ) . |
| 14 | in favour er in his pursuit of er deregulation in scrapping all regulations er er about fraud , attempts to stop fraud , controls on fraud and is like this , is deregulation going to be a fraudsters fun day ? |
| 15 | It gives me the most pain and is like a burning sensation . ’ |
| 16 | So far so good , but is like being compared to like ? |
| 17 | Erm it 's a community isolation because is like mountains around which makes barriers against physical mobility that ca n't really be moved round that easily . |