Example sentences of "be like [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you ca n't , it 's just impossible , cos you live in the ar , you know Green , you 're like a second class citizen , you know . |
| 2 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 3 | They would be like a second family to you . |
| 4 | Yeah , be like the first thing er that it sees |
| 5 | Your caravan is like a second home so you should protect it and its contents in exactly the same way you protect your house or flat . |
| 6 | Roaring Springs at the junction of Bright Angel Canyon , is like a last oasis before entering the desert . |
| 7 | Cos that is like a sixth of the area is n't it ? |
| 8 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 9 | The third example is like the second , since the testator has made the intended beneficiary explicit . |
| 10 | Which is like the third of the tri-glossic |
| 11 | ah well there 's like a second one |
| 12 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 13 | They 're like , obviously that 's like the first weekend of the holidays , and they wanted to book the P A and some stage blocks . |
| 14 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |
| 15 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 16 | It was like a second honeymoon . |
| 17 | Mr Sadler said Sunnie was like a second mother to him . |
| 18 | Sally , the wife who was like a second mother to the Inspector Wexford star 's four daughters , ca n't be with him in Australia to share this moment . |
| 19 | Interestingly , she added to that : ‘ Every shot was like a first night . ’ |
| 20 | erm so I mean what I did with my final year project was actually try to write something which was very sort of wide ranging and broad which sort of was like a first dr draft of an introduction and then once I got more data |
| 21 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 22 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 23 | It was like the first . |
| 24 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 25 | It was like the first time she 'd seen him , just after Peter had introduced her as his fiancée . |