Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] like the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's like the Labour Party . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | When we mean never we say tomorrow morning — it 's like the Spanish saying mañana . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like the Great Fire of London , 1666 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's like the Big Bang theory of the universe . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Do you think it 's like the mathematical conundrum where you keep halving the distance to your goal , but you never actually arrive ? |
| 13 | But it 's like the residential school ones like from and places like that . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's like the same thing with video tapes they all get buggered up . |
| 16 | It 's like the old showbiz saying : Always leave them wanting more . ’ |
| 17 | Or it 's like the radioactive cloud has drifted down , days after the holocaust , and dusted their skin softly to start the decay . |
| 18 | Essentially it is like the forensic scientist trying to find two chemical ‘ fingerprints ’ which match for as many elements as possible . |
| 19 | It is like the differential gear on the back axle of a car . |
| 20 | It is so strange , it is like the awesome silence which in the minds of the ancient Israelites sometimes preceded divine revelation . |
| 21 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 22 | It is like the tiny mustard seed which grows into a sizeable bush that provides sufficient shade for the birds to come and shelter in its branches ( Matt. |
| 23 | In one case the sheet folds in a way that is very similar to the formation of a neural tube ; in another it is very similar to the way the lens forms ; yet in another it is like the early formation of the gut in sea-urchin development . |
| 24 | It is like the selective employment tax that a Labour Government introduced many years ago . |
| 25 | It is like the enormous energy of the sun 's radiation , of which a fraction of less than one per cent is absorbed by all the life-systems of the Earth . |
| 26 | It is like the Buddhist priest who went to nirvana and when he returned , the world had changed into nirvana . |
| 27 | It is like the 1867 Reform Act which enfranchised the ’ respectable ’ working class and similarly it may benefit the Conservatives electorally . |
| 28 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll tell him , Frank , but he 's like the old man . |
| 30 | He 's like my car , he 's like the fucking Fiasco — way past his best , giving everyone grief , and burning up money and rubber and oil . |