Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abbot was knocked sideways with delight , and wrote to Repton , ‘ I am like the possessor of some gem of inestimable value and beauty , concealed in a casket … . |
| 2 | I am like the cow at the sea shore , bound by the motion of the waves . |
| 3 | I am like the child spell-bound by the accumulated powers of the night , — darkness , the sound of silence , loneliness , infinite possibility , all mingled in a vast horror . |
| 4 | I am like the leaves and flowers of ikebana , with roots cut off , stuck in a spiked metal holder ( kenzan ) instead of in the earth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am like the Negro , I just go on . |
| 7 | I am like the painter of that mosaic , the small pieces are falling into place and I need your help . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm like the man who builds St Paul 's Cathedral out of matchsticks , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're the breeze and I 'm like the aspen tree , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm like the rest of you . |
| 11 | By this time I 'm like the ice-man and he 's still at boiling-point . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm like the rest of the fans . |
| 13 | I love making music , and I 've always wanted to travel , but in the end I 'm like the Glueman . |
| 14 | You know , I 'm like the others |
| 15 | I 'm like the baby taken from the toilet . |
| 16 | I 'm like the rest : I want to preserve my job . |
| 17 | But I 'm like the walking dead . |
| 18 | But you do n't know , do you , because sometimes it all depends because I 'm like the only one in my family , |
| 19 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 20 | So theirs is like the way I think . |
| 21 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 24 | Are racial double standards ( viz. , good/bad natives ) and double binds ( damned if you are different and damned if you are like the master race ) a function of this contradictory or dual relation to the Other ? |
| 25 | Listen , you are like the blonde mistress of Heine , the poet Heine , wenig Fleisch , sehr Viel Gemüt , little body , but so much spirit " . |
| 26 | So you 're like the arty film student in The Yob ? |
| 27 | You 're like the drunken smoker in the gunpowder works . ’ |
| 28 | Now , if you 're going to er er er er want everything and then at the same time , want to reduce the budget , then I think you 're like the man who wanted a cake an and you 'll find that he wanted to eat it , so I think you 've got to come to terms and be realistic . |
| 29 | and you 're like the horse fair |
| 30 | You 're like the old man you are , go somewhere , stay five minutes and then go . |