Example sentences of "that [pron] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it that she 's like Barbara Hervey ? |
| 2 | The fact that there 's like a sort of stand off position between two individuals in the office , the stupid thing about it is she 's blaming for what 's happened to her and had nothing to do with it |
| 3 | Did you know that there 's like a huge chance that you 'll marry someone you know by the time you 're eighteen ? |
| 4 | ( Pauline whispers that it 's like World Party . ) |
| 5 | But one old boy over in B Wing was telling me that it 's like a fucking maze down there . |
| 6 | It 's such a want when they have been there so long , that it 's like losing a human being . |
| 7 | When you grow up you realize that it 's like the icing on a cake . |
| 8 | The cars are so close together in the street that it 's like a river . |
| 9 | Erm right , difficult one that it 's like the body language after what ? looking at do some work . |
| 10 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 11 | So that it 's like erm , a dough |
| 12 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 13 | One view of the art market is that it is like a staircase with several landings . |
| 14 | That it is like the mind itself . |
| 15 | It may be because people are not aware that these benefits exist ; they do not wish to ask for help while they can manage on what they have ; or they may be too proud to claim , thinking that it is like asking for charity . |
| 16 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 17 | To represent the dependence of the world upon God it is a classic error to suggest that it is like a car that requires an initial shove down the street and thereafter runs of its own accord . |
| 18 | The square has recently been renovated although people complain that it is like a film set and the houses are still crumbling behind their façades . |
| 19 | We should make our being so open that it is like one of the old free cities — open to all eyes . |
| 20 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 21 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 22 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
| 23 | In that he 's like his great-grandfather . ‘ |
| 24 | ‘ Is it just that he is like you ? ’ |
| 25 | Alex believes that he is like his idol in one major way determination . |