Example sentences of "[pron] be like those " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 2 | Literature is fiction not because it somehow refuses to acknowledge ‘ reality ’ , but because it is not a priori certain that language functions according to principles which are those , or which are like those , of the phenomenal world . |
| 3 | We were like those skeletons still embracing in the dust of their vanished flesh and dead desires . |
| 4 | No it 's not , those erm they 're like those leggings it 's |
| 5 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |
| 6 | It 's like those alien stories where hapless travellers are beamed up by future scientists from other worlds . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like those lizards . ’ |
| 8 | It 's like those lizards . |
| 9 | It 's like those dolls . |
| 10 | It 's like those one-handed arpeggios … |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like those pesky jelly strings in eggs that stick between your teeth — really monstrous ones from an egg the size of a mountain ! |
| 12 | I think it 's it 's like those candies there 's lots of little things you know which people are buying . |
| 13 | It 's like those bags I mean le I mean I 'd go if they bought me one of those bags . |
| 14 | Well it 's like those lads that time who tried to nick a snooker table , they got it , they got it about a hundred yards |
| 15 | Yes , well that 's all very well when they know ho , well it 's like those erm computer things is n't it ? |
| 16 | A house of sin you may call it , but not a house of darkness for the candles are never out , and it is like those countries far in the north where it is as clear at mid-night as at mid-day … |
| 17 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 18 | It is like those cases where women were , perhaps are , discriminated against because they were not ‘ strong ’ enough for a job or part of a job ; but most people would prefer for such a task a strapping wench to a seven-stone male weakling , who gets the sand kicked into his eyes by the beach bully , courtesy of the Charles Atlas advert . |
| 19 | I suppose it is like those astrology charts that appear in the newspaper . |
| 20 | ‘ It was like those people had n't eaten for days , ’ a Wells Fargo spokesman said later . |
| 21 | It was like those you get in comics — over people 's heads when they are having a thought — only this one was a bit more real . |
| 22 | In front of everyone else he was the same as always and it was like those nights were a bad dream . |