Example sentences of "be like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's no good talking when you 're like this . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like you when you 're like this , ’ he said sulking . |
| 3 | Do n't go along the road trying to keep yourself a nice separation distance and as soon as the tail end of another lorry has passed you flash him in and then you 're like this . |
| 4 | You 're boring when you 're like this . |
| 5 | And he 'd say , Oh they 're like this . |
| 6 | It 's because we 're like this — because of our people — that Courtaulds is successful . |
| 7 | Ah they they 're a laugh , they 're like this there 's one of them to this |
| 8 | You 're like this all the time ! |
| 9 | Aubergines. little aubergines , they 're like this . |
| 10 | right , and I mean they , they 're talking to you right and all the time they 're like this themselves like . |
| 11 | It depends on your lifestyle you live , though , cos I got friends who are just like ah , I do n't like and you have to excuse my hairy legs running or something , I mean , I just like they 're like this , and they 've got like black hair about this long , and I 'm like oh my God , oh my God , you 're just like |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 13 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 14 | He has always been like this . |
| 15 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 16 | Perhaps Mr Smith 's book and the reaction to it imply that accounts should not have been like this : that it should be possible to take them as a straightforward objective statement of performance . |
| 17 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 18 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 19 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 20 | There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties . |
| 21 | But it has not always been like this . |
| 22 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 23 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 24 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 25 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 26 | It must have been like this watching a man being broken on the rack , Blanche thought . |
| 27 | It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ How long have you been like this ? ’ |
| 29 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 30 | Dancing had never been like this . |