Example sentences of "be [pron] like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What are you like does it improve your hearing . |
| 2 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 3 | the current is going to be something like multiplied by the voltage . |
| 4 | Whether it 's one of the top clubs like Liverpool or Leeds or a lesser side like Accrington Stanley or Man United , there 's nothing like cheering on your team and screaming blue murder at the ‘ blind ’ ref . |
| 5 | Catharsis there 's nothing like reflecting in tranquillity to help heal those wounds , and most of them were pretty bruised by the nineteen eighties ' experiences of the recent crop . |
| 6 | There 's nothing like watching your ‘ baby ’ blowing out her birthday candles to make you feel nostalgic about newborns ; those downy heads , the curled fingers , the contented milky sighs … |
| 7 | There 's nothing like sharing the highs ( and lows ) of success to build bonds : a camaraderie develops that 's hard to match , a shorthand — no need to explain fears and feelings , the other person knows already . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's nothing like trudging round a cold church to raise an appetite , Mr Barnett . |
| 9 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 10 | There 's nothing like going out there and playing in front of people . |
| 11 | There 's nothing like winning . |
| 12 | Breakfast is nothing like reading a comic . |
| 13 | I gave a good class : there is nothing like teaching well for making one forget oneself and one 's petty troubles . |
| 14 | Marijuana is nothing like taking heroin , smack , whatever , it 's nothing like it ! |
| 15 | There is nothing like having ignorance with the maximum of precision . |
| 16 | THE Prince of Wales brought laughter from international hoteliers by telling them : ‘ There is nothing like having a good pair of Bristols . ’ |
| 17 | There is nothing like sitting out on a trapeze on a windy day , getting completely soaked by each new wave to make you feel cleansed of the city grime . |
| 18 | There is nothing like putting off the chore to send you diving to the cookie jar ! |
| 19 | Intellectual conviction is nothing like feeling at gut level . |
| 20 | I think the oldest one we 've got is something like got us a Roman coin , they . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind that the meaning of imagine is something like construct a mental image without solid evidence , consider : ( 75 ) ( 76 ) ( 75 ) gives a single ( complex ) element as subordinate to imagine ; consequently her is subjected to all the aspects of imagine just as much as red-haired . |
| 22 | It is something like ripping off a plaster . |
| 23 | Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ? |
| 24 | What 's he like to hold ? |
| 25 | ‘ What 's he like to look at ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What 's he like doing ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What 's he like to work for ? ’ |
| 28 | And what 's it like knowing your dear daddy died in a shoot-out ? |
| 29 | Ah er what 's it like living with you then ? |
| 30 | Reporter asks : What 's it like seeing the house again ? |