Example sentences of "be like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost constantly she longed to be like ordinary-looking girls and have a fellow , even if , like most attachments on the station , it was only a temporary affair . |
| 2 | The symptoms of toxoplasmosis for healthy adults may be like mild flu , but often there are no symptoms . |
| 3 | Our first daughter , Lewis-Ann , sometimes complained : ‘ Why ca n't we be like normal families and go to France or Greece ? ’ she would moan . |
| 4 | Do n't be like poor Vincent . |
| 5 | Then they would be like professional sailors , who , when the ship was caught in a storm , could not handle sails or rudders . |
| 6 | To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured . |
| 7 | And when we do return , it shall not be like other travellers , without being able to give one accurate idea of anything . |
| 8 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 9 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |
| 10 | You ca n't expect us to be like other people . |
| 11 | I knew it was right for him — this is where he learnt to join in and be like other children . |
| 12 | " I do n't want to be like other women and cheat you . |
| 13 | The model remains the great house , not the small one , and great houses still try to be like other great houses . |
| 14 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 15 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never worked with either my sister or my dad — I would n't want to be like certain families in this business , ’ she says , just a touch scornfully . |
| 17 | I 'll be like bloody Cinderella . ’ |
| 18 | For this theory to give the observed value of the strong force between particles , the strings had to be like rubber bands with a pull of about ten tons . |
| 19 | " Yeah , but when you got Lorne Guyland in a picture , you got to give him some beef , you got to give him some size , you got to give him some — it 's got to be like big , you know ? |
| 20 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
| 21 | your sons will be like olive shoots |
| 22 | All the best books advise that the texture should be like fine breadcrumbs , and this is literally the state it should be in . |
| 23 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 24 | She also gave her a basket , to be like Red Riding Hood in the story . |
| 25 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 26 | It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 'd be like missing part of the world scene , ’ cried Clare . |
| 28 | ‘ It 'll be like old times again with you watching my back , ’ Rust replied with a grin . |
| 29 | ‘ It 'll be like old times . ’ |
| 30 | I shall be running the saloon — it 'll be like old times , and we 've the new barmaid in the public . |