Example sentences of "that [modal v] be like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I figure if I do n't organise it somebody else will organise it after I die and that 'll be like , it wo n't be right . |
| 2 | That 'll be like four years this August . |
| 3 | Yeah , but that 'll be like a tunnel , you know , when the wind 's blowing because the wind hits our front |
| 4 | That 'll be like me going up there |
| 5 | Yeah , and then , that 'll be like that . |
| 6 | and then eventually that 'll be like a little sitting room |
| 7 | What you doing with the fringe then , just that 'd be like fringe . |
| 8 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 9 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 10 | That would be like a holiday in itself . |
| 11 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That would be like each doing their own version of NFS or TCP/IP and handing the advantage to Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , which has no systems management API yet , ’ warns Moss . |
| 13 | I wonder what that would be like ? |
| 14 | Goodness knows what that would be like . |
| 15 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 16 | When we 've decided on the names , we then have to find the best person to approach for each potential guest , and that can be like a detective job . |