Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] like " in BNC.
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1 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
2 | When you forty pee it 's like eight pounds |
3 | Well , I mean , say it 's like that where you just polishing with a cloth or something |
4 | I say it 's like him him not paying his poll tax . |
5 | It maybe wants it 's like mine , cos all upstairs wants balancing . |
6 | And I have a passion for acting and the truth of acting which is like life to me . |
7 | He says she 's like a mother to them , if they need anything she always helps out . |
8 | Jon Trice-Rolph says he 's like to win a few more races … but enjoys coming out on a saturday afternoon for three or four rides |
9 | Bible says it 's like a vapour . ’ |
10 | Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out . |
11 | She says it 's like standing on the edge of a crevasse . |
12 | Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator … |
13 | He says it 's like that . |
14 | cos Kenneth come up early on , he says it 's like this night he says I 'm not properly , ah right , I says I might I says were that like , I says , I says what time ? |
15 | Pevsner says it is like an overgrown bungalow and with its generous lawns breaks up the texture of the old High Street and the adjacent 18th century Magnolia House . |
16 | ‘ That 's precisely what I imagine it 's like , Sonic Youth playing over a Mondays track , ’ agrees Hugo , as Sam starts espousing the virtues of ‘ Bummed ’ and how ‘ the best bands do n't know what their appeal is ’ . |
17 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
18 | When you backshift it 's like the chain 's come off so I just use the rear brake to settle the suspension and stop the rear end from going crazy . ’ |
19 | That would make her so mercenary , and I do n't believe she 's like that . |
20 | Look it 's like a slide . |
21 | Look it 's like a magnet for your knob . |
22 | I suppose when babies learn to walk it 's like this — you know , one foot in front of the other real slow and wobbly . |
23 | ‘ When he get 's going it 's like striking gold just to get the service from him . ’ |
24 | He said , God , he said I did n't realize it 's like that , I said , no you did n't ! |
25 | They 've all got it 's like that but it 's Swedish . |
26 | I have one that 's got it 's like a desert scene with cacti and a cowboy and this |
27 | when you 're baptized it 's like a pool of water |
28 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
29 | You know everyone 's like , |
30 | and it also depends what 's in Ecstasy cos people put all sorts of shit into Ecstasy nowadays , you know , they just , you know there 's like R Rataseed and y you know , stuff that you put on the lawn and , you know cos it , it 's cheap is n't it ? |