Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] like [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He stared straight in my eyes like he was listening to me … as if he was considering things . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep . |
| 3 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 4 | The birds just sort of bob their heads like they 're wind up toys . |
| 5 | Or screwed up his kids like we were screwed up . |
| 6 | McDunn nods slowly , slightly , a distant look in his eyes like he 's not really nodding at what I 've just told him ; has n't been listening to a word I 've said , in fact . |
| 7 | Certainly we had been given dominion over them , but that did n't mean we had to go cramming their little corpses down our necks like there 's no tomorrow when soya beans and wheat mountains rise up from Mother Earth like a sign saying : Meat is Murter . |