Example sentences of "be like those [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another pint and you 'd be like those young lads all falling over themselves to make an impression . |
| 2 | He , a hundred and forty pound , far too , be like those green trousers you bought , well you 've never worn them yet . |
| 3 | I do not wish to be like those dumpy , chisel-faced women with shopping baskets who tut-tut scandals to each other between the stacked shelves of dog-food , striped toothpaste , coloured toilet-rolls and instant mashed potato in the supermarket opposite the triangle of Shepherd 's Bush Green . |
| 4 | The Smiths were heroic party-poopers at the Top of the Pops office do , glowering at the forced jollity ; they were like those gauche youths Who turn up to house parties only to cling to the dark comers in chaste disdain , driven by the naïve , vaguely inhuman conviction that all merriment is a lie . |
| 5 | Labour is losing in the 1990s because it is like those 19th-century Liberals . |
| 6 | It 's like those one-handed arpeggios … |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like those pesky jelly strings in eggs that stick between your teeth — really monstrous ones from an egg the size of a mountain ! |
| 8 | It 's like those alien stories where hapless travellers are beamed up by future scientists from other worlds . |
| 9 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 10 | Her fall was like those many riders experience all the time . |