Example sentences of "it be like [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | You know what it 's like when they retire , do n't you ? |
2 | Yer know what it 's like when we 're on bonus . ’ |
3 | Look what it 's like when we 're making deliveries . |
4 | It 's like when I finished those songs , I felt an incredible sense of boredom , ‘ Oh , now I 'm done . ' ’ |
5 | It 's like when I was a kid and when everybody else in the grammar school got school dinners I had to queue outside the headmaster 's office every morning for me free dinner ticket . ’ |
6 | It 's like when you hear on the news that there 's been a threemile pile-up on the M1 . |
7 | It 's not long before he 's trying to explain the telepathic communities that will flourish after the apocalypse to me and offering this example : ‘ It 's like when you fancy someone , and you know you 're going to go with that person . |
8 | You know what it 's like when you move house . |
9 | It 's like when you increase the tension on a spring : the pressure is straining to be released . |
10 | It 's like when you see a lovely lady and you get a knock-back you feel sick , but if a beautiful girl says , ‘ Yes ’ to you — boom you 're away . |
11 | ‘ Can you imagine what it 's like when it 's really hot out here ? ’ |
12 | It was pretty rough at one time , but whatever it 's like now it will be better , surely , than some posh hotel . ’ |
13 | Adults , who have been able to read and spell for years , tend to forget what it was like when they could n't unless they have recently learnt a foreign language . |
14 | Dot remembered what it was like when she had felt so ill and confused . |
15 | It was like when she was eight , and Dead Daddy put her on Hero-9 to keep her under control . |
16 | It was like when you had that part in Z-Cars . |
17 | ‘ I ca n't remember what it was like when I did . ’ |
18 | It was like nowhere she had ever been before . |