Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] like the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to express the Hopes , the Fears , the various Conjectures , and Reveries , that your humble Servant must undergo this important Season , I am like the unhappy Gentleman mentioned in the Guardian ; and can scarce endure the bare Pronunciation of the Letter S : The hissing of the Tea-kettle distracts me ; and if I meet a Goose , I shun him as I would a Lion , or a Crocodile . |
| 2 | Listen , you are like the blonde mistress of Heine , the poet Heine , wenig Fleisch , sehr Viel Gemüt , little body , but so much spirit " . |
| 3 | ‘ You are like the wild cat , you are not in it , ’ meaning that present-day-wild cats have become so inter-bred with domestic cats , they are no longer pure : like Scots who have lost their native tongue . |
| 4 | You 're like the drunken smoker in the gunpowder works . ’ |
| 5 | So you 're like the arty film student in The Yob ? |
| 6 | You 're like the old man you are , go somewhere , stay five minutes and then go . |
| 7 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 8 | In these passages there is a feeling of necessary novocaine ; morally we are like the refrigerated tongue on the dentist 's chair , mouth open as wide as it ever goes to the instruments of pain , but speechless . |
| 9 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 10 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 11 | I said , ‘ For God 's sake , Desmond , hire her a television , ’ but he said no because we 're not well off , not well off at all , and we 're having to keep her , she has n't offered a penny , not that we 'd accept of course , and anyway Desmond said there was n't any point because if we got her a television she 'd think of something else , want to play cards or something , and that would be worse — and he 's right , it would , because a game of bridge with her is like the cold war all over again . ’ |
| 12 | Or would it be like the British poll tax , with rich and poor paying the same subject to a complicated system of rebates ? |
| 13 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's like the Labour Party . |
| 15 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |
| 16 | When we mean never we say tomorrow morning — it 's like the Spanish saying mañana . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like the Great Fire of London , 1666 . ’ |
| 18 | It 's like the little boy who 's got a toy , he do n't wan na share it , do n't wan na share it , if forced to share it , he 'll smash it rather than let somebody else have a go with it . |
| 19 | I 've just rung up to see , I was gon na ask Jo to nip out and get me a cake and see if the advert was in , but it do it does n't actually come out , it 's like the local Chronicle here , it comes out on a Thursday night |
| 20 | Some of their comments , it 's like the untutored eye , they pick out things that surprise you because you 've got so used to a particular manner of approaching images , that you forget that there are other ways of doing it . |
| 21 | It 's like the Big Bang theory of the universe . |
| 22 | I mean the Sierra , it 's a good offer on the Sierra but it 's , it 's like the basic engine and I do like a car that you know , you can put your foot down and it |
| 23 | Do you think it 's like the mathematical conundrum where you keep halving the distance to your goal , but you never actually arrive ? |
| 24 | But it 's like the residential school ones like from and places like that . |
| 25 | It 's like the same issue we talked about the three year plan projects if necessary we 'll have to slow down on some of the projects , certainly to get through this budget year intact . |
| 26 | It 's like the same thing with video tapes they all get buggered up . |
| 27 | It 's like the old showbiz saying : Always leave them wanting more . ’ |
| 28 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 29 | Essentially it is like the forensic scientist trying to find two chemical ‘ fingerprints ’ which match for as many elements as possible . |
| 30 | It is like the differential gear on the back axle of a car . |