Example sentences of "be [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du n no , I mean there 's been nothing like that in here . |
| 2 | No Jean , you ai n't got ta say who you are nothing like that bye ! |
| 3 | America believes that the future prosperity and security of Eastern Europe are nothing like guaranteed . |
| 4 | Those guests up in the holiday village are nothing like these people , Doctor . |
| 5 | When people talk , the sounds they make are nothing like written words . |
| 6 | They 're nothing like fresh cream in a a did to mine , I do n't like the fresh cream . |
| 7 | I I mean , you 're anything like that , but not not for a month , I mean . |
| 8 | Or half a can of paraffin , if you 're anything like most of the scouts I 've met . |
| 9 | What are you like first thing in the morning ? |
| 10 | Are you like other men ? ’ |
| 11 | Come on then , there , I ca n't reach , come on then , that 's a good boy there you are you like that ? |
| 12 | Are you like this stupid little bitch 's aunt — do you think Rembrandt got the teeniest bit bored when he painted ? |
| 13 | ‘ Eddy , why are you like this suddenly ? |
| 14 | I had been something like eighteen years in the ordained ministry before I preached my first sermon on Mary . |
| 15 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 16 | ‘ It could possible have been something like that . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it must have been something like that . ’ |
| 18 | It must have been something like that ; Charles was beginning to understand the way Paul Lexington worked . |
| 19 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 20 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 21 | Apart from the risk of invasion , English trade was also in danger ; the interception of the Smyrna convoy in 1693 was said to have cost English merchants £2m. ( which would have been something like 3 per cent of the gross national product ) . |
| 22 | If the Duke had been caught speeding today … his fine would probably have been something like seven hundred pounds . |
| 23 | Selwyn Hopkins ' garden was a sight to behold ‘ The Garden of Eden must have been something like this , ’ Billy remarked in awe . |
| 24 | The first part of Kemp 's day had probably been something like this : |
| 25 | it should 've been something like this . |
| 26 | They would have been something like these : |
| 27 | There 's been something like twenty per cent cut over the last few years and erm some faculty members have taken early retirement and left , so a lot of subjects have lost some of their most able people . |
| 28 | There are something like 2,000 pieces of delegated legislation brought into force every year in the United Kingdom and a recent article in Statute Law Review drew attention to some of the difficulties which are likely to arise in discovering what local instruments are in force and what they say . |
| 29 | My Lord the pleadings bundle runs to almost a hundred pages erm , this is due principally to the fact that there are something like four sets of particulars to statement of claim which have been served over the years er where the plaintiffs have set out their claim in er in detail . |
| 30 | The amount my ordinary bank charges forgetting any sort of bank loan , nothing like that at all , interest , nothing like that , just bank charges for standing orders to the finance company er are something like sixteen seventeen hundred pound a year . |