Example sentences of "[vb base] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alright , if products are competing , alright , say like wheat and barley , they , they could be , termed competing products in supply , so if the price of barley went up , erm , that may have implications on the amount of output of wheat produced . |
| 2 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 3 | but she 'd do anything for you , if you say like midnight one night you got her out of bed and come down . |
| 4 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 5 | ( A gallery of 20/30 spectators and photographers appear like magic on the new road bridge whenever canoes are spotted ) . |
| 6 | Eat raw or cook like celery . |
| 7 | That was no problem nowadays , books travelled the aether like light and sound . |
| 8 | I prefer to think that Anne 's secret is that if you act like royalty , the chance is you 'll be treated like royalty |
| 9 | The subsequent discovery of the endorphins and encephalins , hormones in the brain that act like morphine and so act as a natural analgesic , and their implication in the action of acupuncture , provided further theoretical explanation for its efficacy . |
| 10 | To make the crushing of the torso believable , it had to collapse like metal , not break like fibreglass . |
| 11 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 12 | spread like ointment through the open valleys , |
| 13 | It 's easy but sneaky ; you ferry a dump of fuel , shielding , a nuke and a missile , load up on fuel and a nuke , fly out and up eight clicks , drop the nuke at the foot of the mountains , power-dive back down to base , load the shielding , fuel to the max with just one missile aboard ( meanwhile the nuke explodes , shaking the ground ; you do n't want to be fuelling at this point ) , then you climb like fuck , get to ceiling and then hover in the air above the rising mushroom cloud ! |
| 14 | ‘ You mean like Mum and Dad in bed ? ’ |
| 15 | I mean but I mean I suppose it 's true with with Sonia and with Honey cos I mean like Honey 's a nice person , but there 's three things about her which are very bad , and that is like she takes the piss erm she 's lazy . |
| 16 | ‘ I mean like stick cigarettes in your face until you talk . ’ |
| 17 | I mean like royalty do , pretend to be married but do their own thing on the quiet . |
| 18 | when we 've exchanged contracts I 'll put it back up again , no , well I mean like whatsername across the road , you know erm Stuart 's brother |
| 19 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 20 | Well just through , I mean like land ref land reform in itself is n't erm efficient . |
| 21 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 22 | I mean like office blocks like that over there all that that crap |
| 23 | The trouble with pigeons is the neck ; it 's like old celery ; you double it up and squeeze like buggery but it still wo n't snap . |
| 24 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 25 | Er I du n no , I do n't like crusts I think they taste like shit . |
| 26 | They taste like brussel sprouts |
| 27 | And the smartly dressed sales staff who swarm like pilot fish around shoppers are expected not only to know the names of regulars but also their sizes and colour preferences . |
| 28 | ‘ Cool like refrigeration , the climate sucks . |
| 29 | Thumbs twiddle like wind gauges . |
| 30 | In other passages , however , the symbolism of grass is completely different : in Isa 44.4 , though the text is open to doubt , the redeemed are to spring up like grass ; in Isa 66.14 restored Israel will find its bones flourish like grass , in Job 5.25 Eliphaz promises Job that his descendants will be many and his offspring like ( i.e. as plentiful as ) the grass of the earth . |