Example sentences of "be like " in BNC.
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1 | You 're like me , Dorothy , you 've got no family . |
2 | ‘ It 's no good talking when you 're like this . |
3 | It 's difficult to get matches under your belt when you 're like that . |
4 | I 've forgot what they 're like , but they were pretty good , I remember that . |
5 | ‘ They 're like secret societies , ’ she said . |
6 | You do n't go to the opera primarily to hear the music , you go to be bundled together with people similar to yourself , or people that you think you 're like . |
7 | ‘ They 're like chalk and cheese . |
8 | They 're like that . ’ |
9 | Well , you ca n't blame them , Sergeant , they 're like me , not used to the country , real townees . |
10 | ‘ You 're like all children . |
11 | They 're like as twin lambs , was Jinny 's first thought . |
12 | You 're like a big kid most of the time . |
13 | You 're like my Dad , Quincx , the only relative I 've got . ’ |
14 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
15 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
16 | It 's not as if we 're like bus drivers or air traffic controllers . |
17 | ‘ They 're like magicians . ’ |
18 | ‘ I use the most simple or most complex equipment available — frankly , I think cameras are boring — they 're like a gun , if it shoots O.K. it does n't matter what it is as long as it can do its job . |
19 | She once said , ‘ We 're like two schoolboys ! ’ |
20 | I think you 're like some disgusting little animal , some creature from another planet . |
21 | You see , I know what you 're like . |
22 | ‘ You 're like all squaddies . |
23 | Carew thought , we 're like a bunch of schoolboys nervously watching the master studying the exam papers . |
24 | ‘ Look at her knees , they 're like piano legs , are n't they awful ? ’ |
25 | ‘ Look at your eyes , they 're like piss holes in the snow , ’ laughed Yanto . |
26 | People on the train — they 're like ghosts , I can almost see through them . |
27 | You 're like putty when you 're born . |
28 | They 're like that , are n't they ? |
29 | They 're like a film you 've seen — no , it 's worse , they 're not even inside your memory , they disappear , it 's as though you never had them . |
30 | ‘ You 're like a breath of fresh air , ’ he had said ; ‘ a little summer breeze . |