Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's almost like I 'm a refugee I felt right I 'm like , you know , |
| 2 | I mean , I 'm sorry I 'm like this . |
| 3 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 4 | Then all at once he looked up , with a stare so sudden and urgent it was like a shout . |
| 5 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 6 | I 'm sure it 's like this or is it like that ? |
| 7 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 8 | Where Roman Wyatt was concerned she was like a snail without a shell . |
| 9 | Yeah how do you know what , heavy they are like ? |
| 10 | He knew that as far as his mother was concerned it was like painting fairground panels , it was like keeping whippets . |
| 11 | Bernadette added : ‘ When I saw Farrah lying there safe it was like giving birth all over again . |
| 12 | John 's tears were so enormous it was like trying to stem a leak in the plumbing . |
| 13 | Italian it 's like , it 's very shiny |
| 14 | Once the metal is hot it is like putty . |
| 15 | h ) company experience with forecasting : the more that a company , large or small , can build up forecasting information and experience , the more successful it is like to be in achieving effective forecasts . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're darn right it 's like a war , ’ Hortensia cried . |
| 17 | That 's right it was like a huge I say huge I do n't know how many gallons it would hold , it was a fair copper . |
| 18 | Davos the hippy wears big flares — so big they 're like vast flapping sails . |
| 19 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 20 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 21 | When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight . |
| 22 | He cried out , a sound of pain and rage so inarticulate it was like a seagull 's screech . |
| 23 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting , ’ said Courier , ‘ but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |