Example sentences of "be like [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're like him , Patrick . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , dad , but they 're like him sort of , are n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | Or , should I say , you 're like him ? ’ |
| 4 | Peop they 're like they 're like umbrellas that need unfolding and people say oh they 'll spread out and they 'll develop foliage well there 're similar sorts of trees on Castlegate and they 've been there about three years they 've done nothing in fact they 're dying . |
| 5 | Yes , and you 're like her , he thought . |
| 6 | You 're like her , are you ? ’ |
| 7 | You 're like me , Dorothy , you 've got no family . |
| 8 | Well , you ca n't blame them , Sergeant , they 're like me , not used to the country , real townees . |
| 9 | If you 're like me you 've still got a fair way to go ! |
| 10 | Some players can cover both strings at once , but if you 're like me you 'll have to move finger 3 from one string to the other when required , holding the C chord with fingers 1 and 2 only . |
| 11 | If you 're like me , winter is a time of withdrawal symptoms and dreaming of clear blue skies . |
| 12 | Tina uttered another peal of happy laughter , put her arms round her mother 's shoulders , squeezing her , and using the pet name Cecilia loved , treasured and secretly longed to hear , said , ‘ Do n't you worry , little mum , my kids 'll always be all right , that 's the way they are , they 're like me . |
| 13 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |
| 14 | it 's just too bad , you 're like me Ange |
| 15 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 16 | I mean you 're like me , you want profession , you do n't just come out and throw it , like that , you see |
| 17 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 18 | I do n't know , if you 're like me but , I must confess , I I get er , I would n't say pleasure , but I rather like those incidents where he tells the disciples off , not because he 's telling them off , but because I can fit in wi with what they 've been up to ! |
| 19 | It 's nice to have someone else here , even if they 're like you . ’ |
| 20 | is n't so bad but , I mean if you 're like us and I mean the smoke 's just |
| 21 | It is entirely illegitimate to read post-Freudian standards into a pre-Freudian world or to assume that sexual behaviour then must have been like ours . |
| 22 | I mean what would have happened to us kids if if she 'd have been like him ? |
| 23 | ‘ But she could never have been like me with an audience . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 25 | I suppose in the old days , if we 'd been like you , she 'd have been living with us as a matter of course . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been like it since I were a lad I 'ad a operation for adenoids and summat went wrong " |
| 27 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 28 | She 's been like it all weekend I think . |
| 29 | As I say , I 've always been like it that far for ages . |
| 30 | But he were n't like that when they came he were n't like erm Wayne , Celia 's Wayne , I mean he 's been like it forever |