Example sentences of "it 's like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like adopted |
| 2 | I mean it 's like imagining one without the wheel or something . |
| 3 | Well the thing is , I mean it 's like buying it as you 're going ahead and just totally re-tiling it and going round . |
| 4 | Well I feel it 's the right of every woman that wants a baby to know what it 's like to hold her own baby in her own arms . |
| 5 | The communications are such that it 's like living in a village . |
| 6 | It 's like living with a cantankerous old man ! |
| 7 | and then suddenly from the other end there 's this like , cos we , it 's like a big room , it 's the other end of the room all the dealers there , and er anyway and er and suddenly I hear , and then someone 's like saying talking , they 're all , somebody 's like mi microphone and starts talking to them about er what 's happening in the market , things like that blah blah blah blah blah , and this means blah blah blah blah so watch out for blah blah blah and I thought it 's like living in a different world , it 's amazing . |
| 8 | It 's like living in a dog 's kennel ! |
| 9 | It 's like living back in the flat . |
| 10 | It 's like get in like that and er the thing goes in this way . |
| 11 | It 's like telling Joelle you have Paul Simon 's |
| 12 | And then you go through this door and it 's all old like things and then you go and see erm and you go into this place and it 's like telling you all the erm history and things like that |
| 13 | it 's like writing an essay , you 've got to try and get as mi many things in as you would do when you if you were writing a full essay but instead of writing a paragraph on each thing you write a sentence on each thing try and cover as many bases , then , that 's how you how you get very good marks , it 's not , they are not trying to test your erm your deep knowledge about any one thing in these short answers they are testing the broad , broad venture of your , of your knowledge , alright , so what you want to try and do is to is a blunderbuss approach when you ans you answer these , these questions . |
| 14 | But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay |
| 15 | It 's like looking at the mirror in n it ? |
| 16 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
| 17 | It 's like looking at another planet to a man |
| 18 | Oh yeah but the thing is it 's something , it 's the main , it 's something she , it 's like said to her last night |
| 19 | It 's like tumbling down a whole to your earholes from the start is n't it ? |
| 20 | It 's like trying to unite the churches . |
| 21 | It 's like trying to draw more money out of the bank and you 've got no more cash left in reserve , okay ? |
| 22 | I know what it 's like trying to get alcohol out of your clothes . |
| 23 | it 's like trying to put a quart in a pint pot gon na dry them , it 's dry , manage to get it in , it 's awful |
| 24 | But it 's , it 's like trying to climb a mountain , is n't it , in a sense , you , it 's getting steeper and steeper as you get to the peak , so it gets harder and harder to get that last little bit . |
| 25 | Or is it gon na be turning into something that looks like analysis of oh right so it 's like listen to yep fair enough listen to er a joke and er well I 'll tell you what , can you speak up a bit so we can actually get the conversation on here because the I 'm sure the British National Corpus would be interested . |
| 26 | Oh no an it it 's it 's like slimming nobody should try to slim when they 're feeling tense and agitated and worried about things . |
| 27 | Apparently it 's like sucking I du n no salty warm yogurt . |
| 28 | Yeah it literally it 's like sticking a sticking plaster on your legs and pulling it off . |
| 29 | It 's like smoking So I said to Ann here you are you can bleeding have these . |
| 30 | It 's er more to do with the feeling of , it 's like filling gaps erm |