Example sentences of "be like our " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're like our Miss Tilley then , a deaconess . ’ |
| 2 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 3 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 4 | Hands and arms are like our feet and legs , constantly in demand ! |
| 5 | Yeah , so erm Microsoft Works game pack erm see do that , so many in the range now these are like our , our highlighted deal ones you see |
| 6 | ‘ Me , I 'm like our mother , ’ Ryan had gone on to enlighten her . |
| 7 | Mind you , I 'm like our Colin as well in a lot of ways . |
| 8 | " When we were boys , we wanted to be like our fathers . |
| 9 | Notice that if God really were like our picture of him , then the doubt would be valid . |
| 10 | Their lives were like our weather-storm and sun . |
| 11 | ‘ Our football at the moment , ’ as one sage put it , ‘ is like our economy — failing to keep pace with changing conditions in the society around it . ’ |
| 12 | Our end is like our beginning – we know nothing |
| 13 | ‘ Kenton Ward is like our second home and it would break our hearts if it closed . ’ |
| 14 | In many ways this is like our own fear of snakes . |
| 15 | At last a technology that is like our dreams . |
| 16 | It 's like our worst nightmare . ’ |
| 17 | They come into the theatre , it 's like our home , and they sit there saying , ‘ Oh , she 's absolutely not a Tatyana ’ , or ‘ Can you imagine what kind of leadership is in our theatre — who is the idiot who gave this lady the role of Aida ? ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's like our father , ’ Ryan had once told her . |
| 19 | It 's like our Pam . |
| 20 | Yeah but they were saying now , it 's like our , in the like local paper the poll tax is gon na prob , might be even go up double because of the non-payers . |
| 21 | It 's like our Albert , he tells that many jokes I can never remember half of what he tells me . |
| 22 | It 's like our house . |
| 23 | because we 've had no bloody calls have we , but it 's like our Chronicle around here , it comes out tonight |
| 24 | It 's like our one in the bedroom . |
| 25 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 26 | AS OUR ship 's company — some 50 passengers and the same number of crew — assembled on the dockside , there were wry remarks that nothing else was like our old tub and that they would sail the Nile in none other . |
| 27 | That was like our sanctuary , there was never any bollocks going on there . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll not be wanting to live with a man what 's too proud to take a helping hand from someone as was like our own son , and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 29 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |