Example sentences of "[noun] like [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or screwed up his kids like we were screwed up . |
| 2 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 3 | ‘ He stared straight in my eyes like he was listening to me … as if he was considering things . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The cab driver looks at Jenny 's legs like she was a whore or something . |
| 7 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 8 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 9 | I reckon Marie likes me being round her , and doing things for her . |
| 10 | But our spy at the Barcelona Olympics tells us : ‘ Barbara was hugging Boris 's parents like they were her own . |
| 11 | Sometimes I think I 'm invisible and I can pour myself into places like I 'm made of water . |
| 12 | He says things like they are . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One lesson he can be really soft and anyone could get away with murder ( well , almost ) and the next lesson he goes all strict on you and starts giving out lines and detentions like they were past their sell-by date . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I think that people like us are up for grabs anyway . |
| 17 | Once you 've met a really brilliant mind you realise people like us are small fry . |
| 18 | I was dialling it when I heard the door of Flat 2 open and I glanced over my shoulder to see Fenella , who had added pyjama trousers to her stripey shirt , and Lisabeth , in an ankle-length woollen dressing-gown , creeping down the stairs like they were doing a commercial for a new edition of A. A. Milne books . |
| 19 | His artist friend James William Berthrong III said , ‘ Johnny only surfs like he 's mean . |
| 20 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 21 | But when the time comes to leave , she ca n't help going in a showbiz way , negotiating the steps of the Ritz in her towering leopard-skin stilettos like she 's on the set of a Busby Berkeley musical . |
| 22 | R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'd sit up in my room bashing out the blues like I was Blind Lemon Matlock . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I want police like they are on television , like The Bill , where they get stuck right in , ’ says one boy . |
| 27 | They said he was mentally deficient , and if people like you get your way , they 'll kill off children like he was , and then … ’ ‘ … you 're trying to make science into the new religion , that 's what you 're doing , and it 's a … ’ ‘ … and who 's paying for your filthy experiments ? |
| 28 | We see another bunch of outdoor reporters huddled into their coat collars , clutching mikes like they were chocolate lollies . |
| 29 | ‘ In this back street , ’ he said , ‘ they were making coffins like they were going out of fashion . ’ |
| 30 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |