Example sentences of "[pers pn] be like the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You know , I 'm like the others |
| 3 | You are like the Pharisees and the hypocrites ! ’ |
| 4 | Would she be like the Misses Cardings , the three spinster ladies who kept the hat shop beyond the tobacconist 's ? |
| 5 | quite good today actually , we 've got erm Pat who is like erm who is , I think she 's like the personnel in charge of I know that she 's in charge of personnel there |
| 6 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 7 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
| 8 | We are like the sparks ; to grow , to be capable of greater joy we must go through and experience the suffering and the sorrow . |
| 9 | If we do not ask these questions , can we be sure we have not abandoned the search at too early a point , so that we are like the police officer who judges too soon that the death in a detective story was a suicide and not a murder ? |
| 10 | The arms say the light of day in a short sleeved dress and they are like the arms of a prize fighter . |
| 11 | Yet they are like the cases which follow in that they do not directly ask the trustee to do anything , but none the less cause an obligation under trust to arise in him . |
| 12 | Each image is like a candle and it is for us to embroider our minds so that they are like the constellations of the heavens — Rumi 's harvest of stars . |
| 13 | The people who are seizing and occupying the present time can not belong in my colour , they 're like the bits that leap out of a spinning bowl , too heavy , too separate and distinct to be blended in with the other substances ; red-hot stones , flung out and setting on fire the place where they land . |
| 14 | ‘ They 're like The Eagles while we 're like Eddie & The Hot Rods … ‘ |
| 15 | They 're like the arms of the same monster . ’ |
| 16 | P : ‘ Not if they 're like the ones you gave me last week ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 18 | Sometimes — on ‘ Love ’ — they 're like the Pixies on a dump-truck full of downers . |
| 19 | They 're like the emperors of old : they do n't like bad news , so their servants make sure the truth never gets through to them . |
| 20 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 21 | It 's like the widows might , but when you think of the way |
| 22 | ‘ If it 's like the others … ’ |
| 23 | It 's like the adverts that you see on TV for things like sanitary towels . |
| 24 | I mean it 's like the Indians and the fake rocks that the chippie ran up . |
| 25 | Yes it 's like the holidays , vacation |
| 26 | It is , it 's like the sidings . |
| 27 | It 's like the graphs you know |
| 28 | It 's like the girls said to me today , erm just before the end of I 'm doing it again ! |
| 29 | It 's like the bees : it does n't say what it 's a sign of . |
| 30 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |