Example sentences of "[noun] like [adj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know , a car like this you could pick either of them . |
| 2 | At times like this we can thank God for their independence from politicians . |
| 3 | In a place like this we could scream for hours and no one would hear us . ’ |
| 4 | They buy the records and the video , so on days like this I must come out and see them and say ‘ Thank you ’ because I am in their debt . |
| 5 | ‘ If you have any messages like that you can pass them on yourself — but I 'd advise against it . |
| 6 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 7 | Jessica admitted freely that she was a cottage-dweller , one of the idle rich that cluttered up the streets and strands of Donegal from May to September , but at least she did n't drive a gas-guzzling BMW like some she could mention . |
| 8 | You see , with things like that you can start getting done with living off immoral earnings , brothel-keeping and whatever , and at that age — nearly seventeen — I really did n't want those type of charges . |
| 9 | So you can do things like that you can do erm playing with your coins . |
| 10 | Well some of it erm with some of it is , I mean it 's like the taxation side and , and things like that I can understand quite easily because I 'm used to dealing in that but when it comes |
| 11 | If they want to show things like this they should show it in private . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You must be barmy , hanging around on a night like this you 'll catch your death . |
| 13 | Questions like that you can ask then . |
| 14 | He had returned to Trinidad in May , 1958 , after 25 years absence and was clearly impressed by the mass support for Eric Williams and the P.N.M. ‘ With a movement like this you can do anything ’ , he informed Williams . |
| 15 | out the door like that I 'd put them out the door just like that . |
| 16 | He knew she was getting at him — imagine a man like Marc Vila admitting to being foolish ever ! — but if she kept calm like this she could undermine him just as he had tried to undermine her . |
| 17 | So this On on these general points like this you could pick up quite a few marks , but a lot of the questions are not that technical erm and they 're stuff that you do know . |
| 18 | If Honderich had paid attention to clues like this he could have subjected the credentials of the new right to closer scrutiny and interrogated the development of Conservative thought with much greater sensitivity . |
| 19 | Once people get hold of a thing like this they can start using it . ’ |
| 20 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 21 | No sneaking out at half time like some I could mention . " |
| 22 | I think we need I accept I think we need to look at certain areas we need to look at the entrance I mean if we were doing the entrance again we would have electric doors on what like they 've got on the Harvey Centre so you do n't have to fight your way in I 'm thinking of doors like this we 'll do that . |
| 23 | In a stage like this you can loose so much and gain so little . |
| 24 | It 's got enough room as well to put all the bits and pieces , mind you if you had a house like that you could afford to have someone to look after all the goats and the hens . |
| 25 | ‘ But , for someone who does n't know , in an old house like this it could take us months to find it . ’ |