Example sentences of "be like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dianne told me the score so anyway you 're like a friend can go with you . |
| 2 | He said , you 're like a kid trying to see over a six-foot wall . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're like a cat on hot bricks , ’ he remarked . |
| 4 | You 're like a cat |
| 5 | ‘ You 're like a tornado , ’ Merrill said , when he came back . |
| 6 | They 're like a brick , that 's it . |
| 7 | You 're like a cameleopard ! " |
| 8 | ‘ You 're like a couple of little lads . |
| 9 | They 're like a film you 've seen — no , it 's worse , they 're not even inside your memory , they disappear , it 's as though you never had them . |
| 10 | what they do , they 're like a leg and |
| 11 | You 're like a sea of cotton wool . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're like a holiday for me . |
| 13 | You 're like a buffer ! |
| 14 | ‘ They 're like a tin of worms — wriggling and writhing . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 're like a breath of fresh air , ’ he had said ; ‘ a little summer breeze . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're like a brother to me , ’ Alyssia said impulsively as they drove slowly back to the house around midnight . |
| 17 | You 're like a bladder of lard . |
| 18 | ‘ I use the most simple or most complex equipment available — frankly , I think cameras are boring — they 're like a gun , if it shoots O.K. it does n't matter what it is as long as it can do its job . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're like a dryad , ’ he told her , ‘ or a beautiful wild animal . |
| 20 | Carew thought , we 're like a bunch of schoolboys nervously watching the master studying the exam papers . |
| 21 | They 're like a fibre , they 're er er |
| 22 | Cos they 're , they 're like a cloth cloth belt . |
| 23 | Like a , they 're like a jelly . |
| 24 | You 're like a zombie , to tell the truth . |
| 25 | They 're like a tribe . |
| 26 | if anything they 're like a spray snow . |
| 27 | But that 's the impression people get : that you 're like a dog on heat when you 're released . |
| 28 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 29 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 30 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |