Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is with the subject in mind that Minton restates his belief that unless a painter paints with love , he or she is like a blacksmith hammering away with appropriate tools but no fire . |
| 2 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 3 | Or it is like the light pictures that enter the eyes lenses and escape into the vastness of the tundra and like ice crystals on the windows , they freeze and become the light flowers that bloom on the endless snow fields . |
| 4 | It was like falling into a black well , where you knew there would never be light , or it was like being cast adrift on a night ocean when you knew no ships would ever pass . |
| 5 | At the beginning of one of his books I discovered these words , which to me in my lowly condition were more than words : ‘ I am made unlike anyone I have ever met ; I will even venture to say that I am like no one in the whole world . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 8 | But she also concurred in the view that I was like my father . |
| 9 | the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need , that I was like a child in his hands . |
| 10 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 11 | Or is it that she 's like Barbara Hervey ? |
| 12 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 13 | But that 's the impression people get : that you 're like a dog on heat when you 're released . |
| 14 | It were born on , Yvon Yvon hang on , get it Yvonne 's birthday is the first of February , and mine 's the twenty first , but she 'll be a year older than me , so she 's like a year and twenty days |
| 15 | right , so she was like a frog ? |
| 16 | If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ? |
| 17 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 18 | there was a lot of trouble early on this term when people could n't find stage boards , and like they were all missing and it turns out that they 're like the |
| 19 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 20 | Sarvodaya and Truth are so interrelated in Gandhi 's thought that they are like two sides of a coin . |
| 21 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 22 | In some ways , postnominal attributives are also relatively straightforward ; thus it is perfectly clear that they are like ordinary prenominal attributives in that they do not constitute a full sentence with the noun or noun phrase that precedes them , and that they are part of the same entity-identifying phrase . |
| 23 | The other aim is to suggest that in order to understand ‘ how teachers teach the unteachable ’ one must recognize the manner in which they are engaged in managing a delicate balance of perceptions — that they be like and unlike schools . |
| 24 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 25 | He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame . |
| 26 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 27 | You know , so they were like , they were like bullets ! |
| 28 | I could n't say where , except it was like a pit , and sometimes I was floating above and it was nothing to do with me . |
| 29 | Although the Spirit of the Lord has permeated the church through what is called ‘ charismatic renewal ’ , and although it is like leaven in a lump which has begun to spread its influence , there are still many parts of the church unreached and unaffected . |
| 30 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |