Example sentences of "is [adv] like [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mama , she is so like our sister-in-law — I do wish she could stay with us , ’ said nine-year-old Anne who had a special affinity with her namesake . |
| 2 | A levels only happen when the most , a month , more from school and then they have study leave as you are , now erm when you consider the , the year since September has gone very , very quickly , those who have done very little work in that first year , year twelve , will find that been packed in there and that first year in the sixth is just like your year ten ought to have been , perhaps , one or two of you are are realizing |
| 3 | Aunt Emily said , ‘ She is quite like my sister , you know , Mr Swinton . |
| 4 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 5 | Rather than describing a relation between equals , Hegel 's picture of love-making is very like his account of the relation between Master and Slave , in the Master-Slave dialectic , described in his Phenomenology of Spirit . |