Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ray went to this little cubby hole where these two fellers were one of them looked like a policeman did n't he ? |
| 2 | Get , and I mean like I said to you today you 've still got your cough . |
| 3 | Like , you know , I saw like , what really , I 'd sat there , I mean like you say , I and I admit that I odds and ends that 'll probably take me about an hour in total |
| 4 | I mean like I said on a Friday we get thirteen seventy five till twelve o'clock . |
| 5 | Well I know , but it was sad because in Gosport that was what keep most of them going , I mean like they said none of them have never been on the dole before , they 've all been there since they 've left school , there was a couple there |
| 6 | and er , but apparently they did a , they did a test and that was also a package where the stuff like that , transfer although those three may of been carrying weapons , they split open the policeman , but this does seem to basically at , well not no , not indiscriminately they did n't say that but they shot innocent people , I mean like I said well the I mean that 's got to kill in those streets and stuff the ricochet 's can go quite easily go through somebody but there , there was , there 's always been claims er , there 's no I R A gunmen there |
| 7 | I dance like I 'm splashing water , swirling round them , down the street . |
| 8 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they look like they 're acting , the tape is rejected . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone looks like they 're not having a good time , or they 're looking at their watch , or they look like they 're acting , then the tape is rejected . ’ |
| 10 | For another second I flail like I 'm drowning , and Casey grabs at the gun and wrenches it upwards from my hand . |
| 11 | To say ‘ I look like a bum ’ is offensive to their [ British ] ears ; to the British this means that you look like your own backside . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I look like I 've got it made , do n't I ? ’ |
| 13 | ’ That 's the one where I look like I 'm yelling or screaming or something , right ? |
| 14 | Our Margaret says our my mam lo I look like my mam looks there . |
| 15 | I have to you know , and , and besides , when I come out of there I look like as if I 've been . |
| 16 | It is easy to make up someone to look like someone , is n't it ? |
| 17 | I squirm like I 'm trying to shake off a mosquito . |
| 18 | Shit , I sound like I was bunking with the guy . |
| 19 | I acted like I was n't with them . |
| 20 | Sometimes I get like I ca n't remember how I got some place . |
| 21 | I suppose like you say at nine thirty once the music starts no one 's gon na want |
| 22 | I du n no what they 're laughing at , but I smile like I understand . |
| 23 | ‘ Never feel that , ’ said Lucy , ‘ Oh , God , I feel like I 'm sixteen again . |
| 24 | ‘ When I see things like the series Confessional on TV I feel like a black person must have felt watching the Black and White Minstrel show . |
| 25 | ‘ I feel like he 's the child , and I 've got to be the adult . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes I feel like I 'm part of the machines , you understand me ? ’ |
| 27 | The game was the first tied match in the World League and Alexander said : ‘ I feel like I 've let the whole team down . ’ |
| 28 | When I 'm running , I feel like I am a machine , like a new car that has been run in well . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel like I 'm in prison and I do n't understand the crime , ’ she told him once the preliminaries were over . |
| 30 | Barely a week into the tour , Johnny Marr was feeling the strain : ‘ I feel like I 'm in The Rolling Stones or any other rock band , ’ he said as the gruelling schedule began to etch away at the excitement generated by that first night . |