Example sentences of "[prep] be like [det] " in BNC.

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1 Is you 've got ta be like that show in the West End where it 's gon na feel like the first time .
2 it 's got ta be like that is it ?
3 She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings .
4 The children were deeply ashamed : ‘ He used to be like that when Luke was here , Rose ; only it was worse . ’
5 The nineties are not going to be like that .
6 ‘ Yer never used to be like that till they came wi' their hot water and their olive oil — oil 's fer boilin' people not for washin' in . ’
7 I want to be like that
8 Maidstone 's whole life seemed to be like that .
9 The thing most people fear when they retire , is being dragooned into playing bingo and having sing-songs , but there 's no need for life to be like that .
10 But it does n't need to be like that to be important . ’
11 I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that .
12 ‘ Well , if you 're going to be like that … ’
13 Jewellery ought to be like that .
14 ‘ The hardest thing for me is knowing I had so many good years , so many great moments , because it means you always think it is going to be like that .
15 And rock music has to be like that .
16 ‘ Is it going to be like that always ?
17 But it was not to be like that .
18 Some people of forty are dead already , fixed like waxworks ; I did n't want to be like that .
19 ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’
20 You 've had to be like that all the time , otherwise you feel like you ai n't getting there , they 're getting the better of you , like … ’ cos you listen , do n't you , when you 've had the baby they are supposed to help you and advise you , so you take all their … but then you can only take so much , and you think these must be the mad ones , like .
21 He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler .
22 Life never seems to be like that to me .
23 The 1990s are not supposed to be like that .
24 The point is , it never used to be like that in Scotland , Hogmanay was the main event , short and pagan and festive in a Scottish kind of way .
25 ‘ It used to be like that , but times have changed , ’ Harry argued .
26 ROS : I 'm not going to play if you 're going to be like that .
27 And again , these scribbles , I mean my excuse is they 're supposed to be like that , but These wo n't mean a thing
28 ‘ If you 're going to be like that , I 'm going home , ’ said Sam , but Camille had recovered her spirits .
29 Fatty : There 's no need to be like that !
30 Your intruders 'll all turn out to be like that laddo last night .
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