Example sentences of "like i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of people close by on the summit were busy like me holding the wall up with their backs and their morale up with cheese and onion doorsteps . |
| 2 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 3 | It is quite common , in everyday discourse , to say things like ‘ I was n't really myself ’ or ‘ It was n't like me to do that ’ . |
| 4 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 5 | Would you expect a cold , ruthless Capricorn like me to do anything else ? ’ |
| 6 | She thinks a man like me learns his sexuality like someone learns to ride a bicycle or learns how to swim . |
| 7 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 8 | It 's like me telling someone from India that they should n't write a book about the caste system , because we do n't have one ! ’ |
| 9 | It is not like me to lack perception and I can only suppose that my enthusiasm overruled my common sense . |
| 10 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 11 | As this conversation continued over an extended period , I was waiting to go out to dinner , erm it became apparent that he had n't understood my position it was apparent again , outside earlier today , that people do not understand the position that people like me take . |
| 12 | FA yesterday and it looks like me getting tickets from them is the same chance like the famous snowball in hell — i might settle for a new video player instead — in fact i still have got almost all of WC'90 on video — pictures from — all — games — and complete games from the 1/8 finals and onwards — including the England-Kamerun game which is quite a favorite . |
| 13 | For a guy like me to hang around kicking his heels ai n't natural . |
| 14 | People like me represented an alien world for her , ’ explains James . |
| 15 | So how can you expect someone like me to deal with the day ? |
| 16 | My boyfriend says that ladies like me huv been just too liberated for our own good . |
| 17 | These morons set up meaningless polls , people like me tell them that they 're meaningless , and then , when they turn out to be meaningless , they cry ‘ Amazing triumph for the Tories ! |
| 18 | Chaps like me taking to other chaps like me . |
| 19 | Even people like me became more self-confident in Art when he was the teacher . |
| 20 | Like me to give them a ring ? |
| 21 | Feminism for women like me grew out of our dissatisfaction with our social lot and coincided with the first books that provided a context and a theoretical explanation for what we felt . |
| 22 | He 's put a lot of pressure on people like me to take it seriously . |
| 23 | But if you 're like me moving to a , a house that 's been established for some years you 'll probably find there 's only a minimum of power points because let's face it over the years the use of electrical apparatus have become more and more has n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just one of those dreams the urban yuppy like me goes in for , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Millions of pounds spent on satellite technology is wasted when people like me ignore Michael Fish yelling on television from behind some sandbags , ‘ For God 's sake take cover ! ’ as we set off to claim a Munro with a song in our hearts . |
| 26 | ‘ But sir , volunteer soldiers like me joined with the determination to resist any attack upon our country . |
| 27 | What is the average APF old dear like me to make of it ? |
| 28 | My superiors like me to get as much detail as possible . ’ |
| 29 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 30 | " Once in a while someone like me jumps out of the woodwork and wins . |