Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know and I says like |
| 2 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 3 | Is it because the I sounds like |
| 4 | I sounds like the queen to me . |
| 5 | Well I seems like every bank 's lending ! |
| 6 | Says 'e feels like a young man again . ’ |
| 7 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 8 | ‘ They say she goes like a stoat too , ’ I said loudly . |
| 9 | the other , the other day we was on about , Nicola said about oh she goes like that to Luke . |
| 10 | She goes like this with her paws You know how they come in and out and they |
| 11 | She goes like that , she cuts her eye at you , right . |
| 12 | when I watch it now I get scared , especially the bit when she goes like that and he goes aargh I get , I get scared . |
| 13 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 14 | Oh Emily do n't do that , erm , I 'm still working with that , she goes like this , she goes |
| 15 | Cos she does it and whenever she talks in drama she goes like that and so I go up and goes cooee , hello Donna , who , who |
| 16 | Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs . |
| 17 | She sleeps like the dead . ’ |
| 18 | She drinks like a horse ! |
| 19 | ’ She sits like marble . |
| 20 | She laughs like a horse . |
| 21 | She agreed energetically with me that she writes like Galsworthy . |
| 22 | ‘ She writes like an avenging angel , with a freshness , vigour and zest for sex ( but never for sleaze ) that belie her years . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She dresses like the offspring of the vicar and his cleaning lady . |
| 24 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 25 | She looks like someone else . |
| 26 | I ca n't understand why she looks like this . |
| 27 | She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head . |
| 28 | She looks like an animal lying down there . |
| 29 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |
| 30 | We 've never met her , but we know what she looks like . |