Example sentences of "like i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss do n't like me being late , ’ said Dot . |
| 2 | are not based on some economic theory but on things I and millions like me were brought up with : an honest day 's work for an honest day 's pay ; live within your means ; put a nest egg by for a rainy day ; pay your bills on time ; support the police . |
| 3 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 4 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 5 | ‘ Like I was your little girl . |
| 6 | One elderly juror , whose house had burned down eight months before North appeared , said she tuned in a little to the hearings as she tried to sort everything out , but ‘ it was just like I was focussing on ‘ The Three Stooges ’ or something . ’ |
| 7 | If you look at the history of the band , songs like I Was Made For Loving You , which had a kind of dance feel , we could have done much more of that and been successful with it . |
| 8 | ‘ Like I was sayin' earlier , ’ she prattled on , ‘ yer got ta be so careful wiv kids . ’ |
| 9 | Like I was just a shadow , or a dog he does n't have to talk to . |
| 10 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 11 | Like I was a horse or something . |
| 12 | Ive no reason to get carried away myself … just like I was nt all doom and gloom before the Oldham match . |
| 13 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 14 | I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep . |
| 15 | Sometimes I think I 'm invisible and I can pour myself into places like I 'm made of water . |
| 16 | They 're all statues and I 'm dancing into the gaps between them , rolling into the spaces like I 'm a ball of water — a red watery marble rolling along the street and nobody ca n't see me and nobody ca n't catch me . |
| 17 | At the Hard Rock Cafe , London , Mr Brooke admitted he did not know the full repertoire of the band , famous for hits like I 'm Too Sexy and Deeply Dippy . |
| 18 | No , well you see I wear a ring intermittently like I 'm wearing that one today . |
| 19 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 20 | Like I 'm still a boy . |
| 21 | Like I 'm just a friend . |
| 22 | Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it . |
| 23 | I like I 'm sure others , once the issues were published for the E I P , took advice from the Home Secretary and were simply advised that the location that that we should give evidence on locational matters to the E I P and that is what we have done . |
| 24 | She built on that early breakthrough with numbers like I 'm Sorry , Speak To Me Pretty , Here Comes That Feeling and Let's Jump the Broomstick , accumulating 17 top 30 hits in the UK between 1960 and 1965 , and 19 top 20 hits in America . |
| 25 | That 's the shape I like I 'm quite upset now about . |
| 26 | I reckon Marie likes me being round her , and doing things for her . |