Example sentences of "[is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole audience became like one and anything somebody say is like you say it . |
| 2 | The only time we 've ev you know in pubs round here is like I said when it 's someone 's birthday in the family |
| 3 | And for yourself , and what we do n't wan na do is like I say , is spend money that is just gon na disappear and say shit ! |
| 4 | You know , I mean all it is like I say , it 's I 'd use it , put it that way . |
| 5 | I think me Auntie Jean 's , she 'll go off her rocker because she is like I say , me Auntie Jean 's only one that she ever remembers cos like me Auntie Jean takes the meal , like every meal down for her and |
| 6 | It 's like she 's real sad and quiet like . |
| 7 | It 's like she 's still here — you know , having her hairbrush and that . |
| 8 | There 's all these buildings and streets out there , but it 's like they 're all empty — you know , like there 's no one out there , just things . |
| 9 | It 's like it 's still night and I never been to sleep at all . |
| 10 | It 's like it was someone else . |
| 11 | It 's like everything 's a long way away , and everything 's real big and unreal looking . |
| 12 | It 's like it 's flashing in my head . |
| 13 | It 's like they 're sharks or summat , or fish with these big white eyes looking for things to eat . |
| 14 | It 's like I said , the witness got the licence number garbled . ’ |
| 15 | Now it 's like they 're saying the party 's finished . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's like Elinor says , you 're not on the right wavelength . ’ |
| 17 | It 's like U2 called their last tour Love Town . |
| 18 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's like Tove said : about loud activity and quiet repose . |
| 20 | Some days , it 's too misty and it 's like it 's vanished altogether . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's like she 's laughing at us . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's like Bill told you , ’ she said quietly . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's like Spain was 20 years ago , ’ said Nick . |
| 25 | Yesterday as 390 of his old workmates were thrown on to the dole with him , Mike said : ‘ It 's like somebody kicked you in the guts . |
| 26 | It 's like she had a multi-barrelled gun , and has n't just shot herself in the foot , but shot herself everywhere and blown her own head off , and no-one seems to have noticed . |
| 27 | It 's like somebody is watching it all for you … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Odd , when you come to think of it ’ — he handed her a full wine glass of gin — ‘ but they say he 's like he is because his father and mother were religious . |
| 29 | Mrs Peel , however , saw things differently , saying of the head , ‘ She seemed to be assessing me rather than John … it 's like she 's shifting the blame on to me … she used to speak to me like I was a really bad mother . |
| 30 | It 's like he died . |