Example sentences of "[vb base] [indef pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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1 | No , no , no , the longer you the longer you let something like that ride |
2 | When we make something like these ten steps our daily discipline , we are aiming for it to be a vehicle through which we meet God and learn to love him and listen to him and abide in him . |
3 | ‘ I never hear anything like that at home . ’ |
4 | People feel something like this : ‘ If I knew I did everything I possibly could then I would n't feel so bad after he 's gone ’ . |
5 | Moan about it and do nothing like all of them . |
6 | No we do one like this , in this colour , Pyrex but a big one . |
7 | Fashanu has the ability to charm FA disciplinarians and once at Lancaster Gate came up with the immortal line ‘ Would a Bernado 's boy do something like that ’ when pleading his case after a tunnel clash with Viv Anderson . |
8 | ‘ Why ca n't someone on the Left ever do something like that ? ’ he remarked admiringly to Anthony Powell in 1941 , when he heard Waugh had joined a commando unit . |
9 | Well actually , the function of the youth bus is like in the absence of buildings in , in area 's where people want to go , it 's fulfilling that function , on the bus there are things like videos , people can play music , they also get erm , you know , we do n't just let them do what they want to do , although were , you know , where quite erm , quite progressive with them , we actually provide , we have information on the the bus , provide information , we 've got a Coun we involve local Councillor 's like on Aids and stuff like that , I mean you have to be quite sensitive when you do something like that , you know especially if , you know , with the age group , erm , but erm , you know you get younger people coming on , twelve year olds to thirteen year old and what not . |
10 | We wo n't get any girls working here if we do something like that . |
11 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
12 | Now supposing then , this committee that John Major 's set up do something like that , and they get that down on paper . |
13 | Do something like that . |
14 | Well I think do something like that . |
15 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
16 | cheaper than what I 'd had it for but I mean they always do something like that |
17 | I was gon na say , if , if , if he , if he 's not reasonably sane then he might be , he 's gon na do , go out and do something like that any way |
18 | and they make sure they every time they do something like this there pension 's on the line , there job 's on the line |
19 | ‘ We do something like this every year between harvest time and Christmas . |
20 | What I keep trying to tell him is that if you do something like this , this space underneath has to be at least as much between the top of the S as the and the baseline and they sell them . |
21 | " Oh , we never do anything like that . |
22 | You need somebody like that |
23 | But , yes , I agree we need something like that . |
24 | And obviously if you playing cards close to your chest , you need something like this to sort of be able , you know , |
25 | ‘ If you have a bad result like we had against Norway then of course you need something like this tour . |
26 | When I see something like that , I know I have to write about it . ’ |
27 | But you see something like that might just appeal to somebody , an embroidered picture . |
28 | Like we you never see anything like that in this country at all the steaks . |