Example sentences of "'s [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's rather like a trip on the Circle Line ; you can get on at any point really , and you 'll get to the fridge , or the move , or the school fees sooner or later and then back to the beginning again . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's rather like a cathedral , ’ she murmured . |
| 3 | It 's rather like a computer when the disc goes wrong — you know the info is there but you ca n't tap into it . |
| 4 | Cos I mean it 's only like a siren , it 's only going ooh ooh ooh in n it ? |
| 5 | But it was really , I mean it , it meant of course that the other people on the boat could have some enjoyment as well , cos I mean , there 's nothing worse i if you if there 's only one rod out , or two rods out th those boats there 's only like a couple of rods out int there on , on |
| 6 | It 's only like a plaster of paris stuff is n't it ? |
| 7 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 8 | He 's in like a breeze . |
| 9 | Yeah Emily was trying it on again this morning , I think it 's just that she gets tired cos she feels slothlike in the morning and then by the end of the day she 's over like a rocket |
| 10 | He 's just like a child , Joe thought , it 's as if I 've taken his toys away from him . |
| 11 | So he 's just like a child is n't he ? |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just like a circus . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's just like a battering ram . ’ |
| 14 | That farm 's just like a weekend in Palm Springs — a great place to get in shape . |
| 15 | Like he , he was like saying , it 's got to be a the word book , will eventually he was really getting into it and really going into about , you know , how it 's really gon na be jam- packed with important information , and she just said , so it 's just like a scrapbook really you know , when if you 've filled all that up |
| 16 | Well she 's like , really she 's just like a friend of Kate Hardcastle cos |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if you do n't talk , well , it 's just like a funeral . |
| 18 | That 's nice that 's just like a lemon here that one . |
| 19 | It 's just like a matchbox , is n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | She did have it all bandaged up , she were she were cleaning toilet at bottom , and er , apparently there was a piece out of it and she did n't know , and she wiped round it , it sliced it , and it were bleeding like mad , well she came across to our 'ouse , and we were n't in , and then she went to Kevin 's and she had she had it , but it , now it 's just like a line now , |
| 21 | It 's just like a fly sheet that comes out every month . |
| 22 | Dipped lights though , it 's just like a guess . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just like a fairyland , ’ says Alexei , through the interpreter . |
| 24 | It 's just like a family tree . |
| 25 | I think it 's just like a drop of water in the wind . |
| 26 | That lead singer can be quite funny , but mostly he 's just like a maddie . |
| 27 | That 's just like a clarinet player . |
| 28 | She 's just like a week ago she was she did the manager 's job and , she drops she brings Joshua down here for about quarter to nine , then she goes back up to Stop Hill with the girls |
| 29 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just like a piano and so much so that we have n't even got one at home and I did n't practice on one before the competition I can just switch to playing it instead of a piano , ’ said Lisa . |