Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when you 're starting to talk like that , everyone is discussing it according to their own experience or the last lesson they taught when this came up . |
| 2 | Dealers would be taught to respond like this : " We could do that . |
| 3 | That a computer can be taught to work like that has always been a controversial proposition ; even today there are observers who believe that it is impossible to build a machine ( at least with current programming techniques ) that can plan even remotely as well as a human . |
| 4 | The same honeyed tone , she thought ; they must be trained to speak like that , oozing reassurance . |
| 5 | She resented being compelled to behave like this , always being the one to draw attention to the fact that all was not well , that there were idiots and enemies under their roof , eating their salt and sullying the air with their breath . |
| 6 | It 's meant to wear like this . |
| 7 | Treloar smoked for a while in silence , then he said : ‘ I suppose that was the man 's nature but I 've wondered sometimes whether it was why Francis turned out so bloody useless … if he was made to feel like that from childhood — insignificant , a bit of a joke . ’ |
| 8 | It was bound to end like this . " |
| 9 | Frightened as much by her own emotional weakness as by the almost dangerous , threatening atmosphere which seemed to be building up between them , she was beginning to feel like some poor rabbit caught in a trap . |
| 10 | Still no purchase and it was beginning to look like all or nothing . |