Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 2 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 3 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 4 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything I did was like stepping stones to Hawaii . ’ |
| 6 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 7 | Baffled Lilly , from Anfield , Liverpool , added : ‘ I 've been like this for as long as I can remember . |
| 8 | I 've been like mad mad busy w one thing and another . |
| 9 | I 've been like that all day . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been like a little kid . |
| 11 | I 've been like it since I were a lad I 'ad a operation for adenoids and summat went wrong " |
| 12 | I 've smoked more while I 've been like this |
| 13 | I 've been , I 've been like this for three nights . |
| 14 | I don 's like to think of either of you digging in your heavy clay . |
| 15 | Every breath that I take is like a gust of autumn breeze . |
| 16 | Cos what I need is like a block of wood . |
| 17 | This crypt-room is so stuffy , the walls squeeze in , I 'm listening for him as I write , the thoughts I have are like bad drawings . |
| 18 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 19 | ‘ How dreadful for you , somebody you know being like that . ’ |
| 20 | If what you hear is like a field |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 22 | somebody at work , what 's a matter love you 've been like this since you 've got up have n't you ? |
| 23 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 24 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 25 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |
| 26 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 27 | So the pictures you see are like it sometimes happens . |
| 28 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 30 | She 's been like it all weekend I think . |