Example sentences of "it like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pronounced it like Doktor with a ‘ k ’ . |
| 2 | It was on the mantelpiece , as before , and its light flowed round it like water . |
| 3 | The plan is to buy the school from the council and then apply for a governmnet grant to run it like other opted out schools . |
| 4 | Light a match , they say , and flames flicker over it like brandy on a Christmas pudding . |
| 5 | And once she utters those words we 've to deal with it like rape , the whole procedure , medical examination , and questioning . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been absolutely wonderful and has made it like home for us . |
| 7 | Do n't spread it like putty you know , but , quite a lot I like to be able to taste it where Christine just likes the flavour if you know what I mean . |
| 8 | Is it like cold out ? |
| 9 | What do , what do you actually do in your office , is it like telephone duties or typing or what ? |
| 10 | It was thick and almost crudely black , with a shine on it like molasses . |
| 11 | I had no time to steam my Christmas pudding , so I poured boiling water over it and ate it like cake . |
| 12 | I need it like heroin . |
| 13 | I will miss it like hell . ’ |
| 14 | Black lichen clung to it like rind . |
| 15 | Well it 's you do n't spell it like cupboard you spell it like a cup board . |
| 16 | If there 's anything embedded in it like glass , wood or dirt . |
| 17 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
| 18 | A lot of people thought of Maureen 's house as ‘ the bird hospital ’ , but in fact the garden was like a street of birds , with cages and aviaries stacked along either side of it like tower blocks . |
| 19 | Then at the crest of each polished wave , the blackness broke for a moment into the dark green of very deep water , and the sun shimmered in it like light varnished over . |
| 20 | Mrs Hollidaye glanced down at her brooch and touched it like Dot used to touch her token . |
| 21 | Oh no is it , like , has it got like , is it like velvet ? |
| 22 | As he smelled the smouldering frankincense , he would imagine his own body inflamed and his soul soaring from it like smoke . |