Example sentences of "be always like " in BNC.
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| 1 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 2 | When you work these square root things out , whatever square root is , it 's always one , like one plus three , minus five , the other one 's minus three plus five , they 're always like that . |
| 3 | Perhaps the little blue exters thought humans are always like that . |
| 4 | Erm you might think that all graphs always look like that , or bits of graphs are always like that , or where does it all tie in ? |
| 5 | Will it be always like that then ? |
| 6 | I 'm always like that with Nat West , though . |
| 7 | But perhaps they were always like this . |
| 8 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 9 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 10 | It is always like that with a small child . |
| 11 | He never opens his curtains , so it 's always like night in his room , even if it 's daytime . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's always like this , ’ the host explained , ‘ when we roast an ox . ’ |
| 13 | She 's always like that when she 's in a bad temper . |
| 14 | It 's always like this after a show , an anticlimactic darkness , and I wish I was a typist . |
| 15 | It 's always like this in Greece . ’ |
| 16 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 17 | Take no notice — it 's always like this . |
| 18 | I 'm sorry about Antonio 's behaviour , but he 's always like this when he 's had a couple of drinks . ’ |
| 19 | ( ‘ He 's always like that , he does it deliberately . ’ ) |
| 20 | Here Mike says , ‘ Well he ai n't exactly funny , but he 's always like makin' remarks like , y'know ? |
| 21 | ‘ It 's always like this . ’ |
| 22 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's always like this . |
| 24 | Oh yeah it 's always like that . |
| 25 | All the time it 's always like that and I hate that because I 'm that 's why I 'm so slow too . |
| 26 | And they were all saying oh but he 's always like that ! |
| 27 | And whatever the weather was like outside , inside the mill it was always like a hot swamp . |
| 28 | He was always like two , three moves ahead . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that both mother and teacher said that he was always like this , it happened on average three times a day only after he was asked to do something other than play by himself . |
| 30 | Hepzibah 's kitchen was always like that , and not only that evening . |