Example sentences of "[verb] like so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cynics may scoff that he is yet another stiff-upper-lip , old-soldier type , having come like so many of the august men of the Club from a military background before moving on to sugar . |
| 2 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 3 | It is not going to disappear like so many initiatives that start well but fade away . |
| 4 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 5 | Their colonies , looking like so many miniature hacksaw blades , often completely covered bedding planes , and usually they were found in the absence of other kinds of fossils . |
| 6 | Alongside the synagogue is one of the most remarkable sights in Europe , the Old Jewish Cemetery , where the famous and the infamous are squeezed together , the crowded headstones looking like so many crooked teeth . |
| 7 | It had become a very sad sight indeed , but Jack hardly noticed as he turned and stared back down the hill to Sakata , its neat rows of buildings looking like so much Lego . |
| 8 | It was no good , her brain seemed like so much candy-floss . |
| 9 | Wet blades of grass gleamed like so many tiny polished green spears in the early evening sunshine and the gorse bushes sparkled with diamond drops . |
| 10 | their primary bloom pressed like so many fading scrap-book postcards , |
| 11 | Scarlet supposed she should be grateful that her daughter had not shaved her head , tattooed her nose or chosen to go around in floor-length black , hung about with chains and crucifixes like so many of the girls on the streets . |
| 12 | All of the sources on the on the network look like so for instance I can do joins across two heterogeneous R D B M Ss. you can have a table with departments in , employee 's in Oracle , and salaries in D B two and I could use a single select statement and join all that information together in a single request to the Omni SQL Gateway . |
| 13 | I mean we come out with erm an equation that look like so expected price and T is a function right it 's the sum of gamma into one minus gamma into J into P T minus one minus J and J goes to infinity . |
| 14 | All the social sciences are predicated on the notion that individuals are not isolated like so many Robinson Crusoes — who , in any case , was already a social creature by the time he was shipwrecked on the island — but are related to others in complex ways . |
| 15 | Computer science , though one of the younger disciplines , relies like so many others on mathematics , and this happy relationship works both ways . |
| 16 | of other things so er so that 's er seems like so far so good almost |
| 17 | He was aware of the accusation frequently levelled at doctors of his sort , that they are charming to their private patients who pay them , while treating like so many malfunctioning machines their National Health patients who merely pay the state . |
| 18 | It was just left abandoned like so many of the others and fell into a state of disrepair . |
| 19 | He did n't want her to die like so many babies did . |
| 20 | They were dragged , shrieking and weeping from their homes and hurled like so much old clothing into the middle of the road . |
| 21 | ‘ 'E likes to know what everythin' smells like so 's he knows who to say hello to and who not . ’ |
| 22 | It moves another two inches and stops , then another two inches and stops , and continues like so until I pick up the rod and strike . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 'll take me , James , ’ said Amaranth , her laugh tinkling like so many distant cow bells . |
| 24 | I hope that we are never foolish enough to take what it does for granted — because that is when it will begin to crumble and fail like so many others have done . |
| 25 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |