Example sentences of "[adv prt] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does anybody know why agriculture was n't in erm the G A T T it 's never , t discussed in the G A T T why it has n't er included in like manufacturing is reason why that is ? |
| 2 | ‘ Will I do ? ’ she asked Matey , in her charming , half-joking manner , for Matey to reply in like vein , |
| 3 | Ellwood pursed his lips round a bean and sucked it in like spaghetti , then touched his mouth and hands with his napkin before taking a sip from a full glass of red wine . |
| 4 | it 's nice it 's just like , it 's a sleeveless top , white , they had it in like lilac , jade and navy , erm and it 's got , it 's navy shorts with it |
| 5 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 6 | I knew too that if Jerry had ever behaved as I did , taking on more than he could chew , then I too would have responded in like manner . |
| 7 | None would suspect if she and I changed places , as it were — she wearing my apparel and having her hair dressed in like manner . ’ |
| 8 | She did n't respond in like manner but said , ‘ She 's got a month . ’ |
| 9 | Then , in open recognition of the novelty of the charge and the conviction , and the circumstance that Tan genuinely believed herself to be operating within current criminal law , the Court of Appeal suspended the custodial sentence for two years with , however , a stern warning that others offending in like manner would receive immediate and substantial custodial sentences . |
| 10 | He adds that cherry syrup may be used in like manner . |
| 11 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 12 | ( 3 ) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land , … not being itself partnership property , are partners as to profits made by the use of that land or estate , and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in like manner , the land or estate so purchased belongs to them , in the absence of an agreement to the contrary , not as partners but as co-owners for the same respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate first mentioned at the date of the purchase . |
| 13 | And you made you in like camera work , or could you actually |
| 14 | In like area . |
| 15 | And then there 's things that come in like superannuation may be , pension payments if you 're in a scheme , lump sum repayments the sort of things that you ca n't spend but if you 're not here they may be going into the pot . |
| 16 | They d they should do them in like fishing shops |
| 17 | ‘ The Canadian Pacific and VIA Rail , who work so closely together , get along like sandpaper , good at friction . |
| 18 | Amongst the curricular areas identified as in need of attention was the school library , so that the project " came along like money from heaven " . |
| 19 | Whole sections of the City were trampled flat , buildings going down like balsa wood . |
| 20 | Walmington-On-Sea 's arthritic Jerry-bashers were an unlikely hit , rescued from doooom by top-quality acting ( Lowe , Le Mesurier , Laurie , Pertwee , Frank Williams as the vicar ) and the same sense of Little England that bogged Last Of The Summer Wine down like treacle . |
| 21 | When feeding characteristically run a little way and then stop , often bobbing head nervously ; head held up as if listening , not down like Knot ( p. 129 ) or Dunlin ( p. 127 ) . |
| 22 | These small rows of houses look as if they had been dumped down like baggage on a railway platform while the owner goes for a sandwich . |
| 23 | Bird-lime rained down like sleet . |
| 24 | The hair of his bush floated and he made a swell in the water with his hand to make it ride up and down like seaweed over waves . |
| 25 | When he had them so placed , he spurred ahead and drew dear , and the archers cut them down like corn . |
| 26 | Stewart 's eyes were alight and he was drinking the claret down like water . |
| 27 | Her frustrated jumping , which sent her thick , straight , dark hair — Anna 's hair — flying up and down like dog 's ears , was no more than a maddened expression of how she felt when reminded of school , of a world where she was doomed to remain odd . |
| 28 | He 's just bringing you down like dirt . |
| 29 | In some of these early Sonatas I even find the fortepiano to be of advantage , particularly in the first movement of Op. 7 where quick passages should come down like hail : the action is lighter , and the incisiveness of fast forte notes much bigger . |
| 30 | when the rain comes down like vitriol . |