Example sentences of "it [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , make it Ireland like last time . |
| 2 | Finally , grab yourself a makeshift whip : lash out at the face with the leather belt from your waist so that it cracks like the real thing . |
| 3 | It sound like a baby alarm to me . |
| 4 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 5 | If you tell me something ca n't be done , I 'll probably tell you it can and when I 've started on it things like sleep and food can become secondary . ’ |
| 6 | Right I mean , part partly related to body language , but it things like proximity |
| 7 | Well erm there 's a lot of there 's a lot of abuse that goes on between kids of similar ages , often in schools , and we call it things like bullying . |
| 8 | It 's very easy to do it because all you do is how many people go there , you know , who runs it runs it stuff like that and you just , you 're exploring and you 're getting more information and it 's that 's great , fine . |
| 9 | It revs like a turbine and sounds like a locomotive . |
| 10 | Of course it taste like coffee |
| 11 | It taste like it 's green ? |
| 12 | Is it county like |
| 13 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
| 14 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 15 | He was never happier than when watching Morse come face to face with a mystery : it vas like watching his chief tackle some fiendishly devised crossword ( as Lewis had often done ) , with the virgin grid on the table in front of him , almost immediately coming up with some sort of answer to the majority of the clues — and then with Lewis himself , albeit only occasionally , supplying one blindingly obvious answer to the easiest clue in the puzzle , and the only one that Morse had failed to fathom . |