Example sentences of "being like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 2 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't quite anticipate fun being like that . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't imagine being like that , when I 'm old . ’ |
| 5 | Intelligent men must despise themselves for being like that . |
| 6 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 7 | ‘ How dreadful for you , somebody you know being like that . ’ |
| 8 | I hate his being like that though . ’ |
| 9 | I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ? |
| 10 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 11 | And , gon na , she 's gon na carry on being like that while , while Evelyn 's there |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't mind me being like this ? ’ |
| 13 | being like this |
| 14 | Yet no great effort of imagination is required to described Jones meaningfully and accurately as either being like those who are Tolstoy-liking or not being like those who are Tolstoy-liking . |
| 15 | Yet no great effort of imagination is required to described Jones meaningfully and accurately as either being like those who are Tolstoy-liking or not being like those who are Tolstoy-liking . |