Example sentences of "to be like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She once put a jar in the middle of the table , in the light , and said she wanted her heroine to be like that ; her novels create just such memorable images , not static , but still , like remembered paintings . |
| 2 | The children were deeply ashamed : ‘ He used to be like that when Luke was here , Rose ; only it was worse . ’ |
| 3 | The nineties are not going to be like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Yer never used to be like that till they came wi' their hot water and their olive oil — oil 's fer boilin' people not for washin' in . ’ |
| 5 | I want to be like that … |
| 6 | Maidstone 's whole life seemed to be like that . |
| 7 | The thing most people fear when they retire , is being dragooned into playing bingo and having sing-songs , but there 's no need for life to be like that . |
| 8 | But it does n't need to be like that to be important . ’ |
| 9 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , if you 're going to be like that … ’ |
| 11 | Jewellery ought to be like that . |
| 12 | ‘ The hardest thing for me is knowing I had so many good years , so many great moments , because it means you always think it is going to be like that . |
| 13 | And rock music has to be like that . |
| 14 | ‘ Is it going to be like that always ? |
| 15 | But it was not to be like that . |
| 16 | Some people of forty are dead already , fixed like waxworks ; I did n't want to be like that . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's always going to be like that here and anyone who thinks differently is living in cloud cuckoo land . ’ |
| 18 | You 've had to be like that all the time , otherwise you feel like you ai n't getting there , they 're getting the better of you , like … ’ cos you listen , do n't you , when you 've had the baby they are supposed to help you and advise you , so you take all their … but then you can only take so much , and you think these must be the mad ones , like . |
| 19 | He does n't really want to be like that — he 'd rather like to be a baseball star or a Sumo wrestler . |
| 20 | Life never seems to be like that to me . |
| 21 | The 1990s are not supposed to be like that . |
| 22 | The point is , it never used to be like that in Scotland , Hogmanay was the main event , short and pagan and festive in a Scottish kind of way . |
| 23 | ‘ It used to be like that , but times have changed , ’ Harry argued . |
| 24 | ROS : I 'm not going to play if you 're going to be like that . |
| 25 | And again , these scribbles , I mean my excuse is they 're supposed to be like that , but These wo n't mean a thing |
| 26 | ‘ If you 're going to be like that , I 'm going home , ’ said Sam , but Camille had recovered her spirits . |
| 27 | Fatty : There 's no need to be like that ! |
| 28 | Your intruders 'll all turn out to be like that laddo last night . |
| 29 | All … all that I 'm saying is that I would like my job and what I do ideally to be like that . |
| 30 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |