Example sentences of "like [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 2 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 3 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 4 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |
| 5 | Arab rule , like that of the preceding conquerors , meant involvement in the wider fortunes of empires and dynasties around the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | Larval termites look like those most primitive of insects , the bristletails ; larval horseshoe crabs are visibly segmented and so reveal a similarity with the trilobites difficult to perceive in the adult ; the free-swimming molluscan larva looks very like that of the segmented worms and thus suggests a link between the two groups . |
| 7 | During the period of Chinese disunity the Japanese had supported the powerful warlord , Zhang Zuolin , who ruled Manchuria as his private province for much of the 1920s , but Zhang 's position , like that of the other warlords , began to come under threat from the rise of the Nationalist movement under Chiang Kai-shek ( Zhiang Jishe ) . |
| 8 | He had a smart head , Charlie ; he learned that his success , like that of the other bands , was guaranteed by his ability to insult the media . |
| 9 | This movement exposes the active site ( pink ) , consisting of a catalytic triad like that of the serine proteinases , which lies at the bottom of a hydrophobic canyon in the catalytic amino-terminal domain of the protein . |
| 10 | In the sixteenth century , and to a considerable extent in the seventeenth also , their function , like that of the French secretaries under the last Valois kings , was merely executive . |
| 11 | All this may seem obvious , but in fact it had not worked out like that in the earlier days of the cutters as I recall . |
| 12 | He 'd never have been like that in the old days . |
| 13 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |
| 14 | He sometimes wondered if it was not Blanche 's ability to daydream like this for a few seconds a day , the power to see beauty in apparent ugliness , that was the key to her resilience . |
| 15 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 16 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 17 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 18 | And then it suddenly struck her what he must be thinking , and she remembered Aunt Nella fainting like this in the early days of her pregnancy with Cousin Lawrence . |
| 19 | There will undoubtedly be more battles like this in the coming years , whether or not the Conservatives hold on to power . |
| 20 | Although it appears as a contradiction , just like some of the stated motives of those leaving , I believe it is a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 21 | On the other hand of course it 's the old old story , it 's like some of the other competitions which we endure rather in the early stages , when you think of the Freight Rover and er one or two others as well . |
| 22 | Like some of the multinational headhunters and unlike many other British firms , researchers are encouraged to accompany consultants at client briefings and become closely involved in the assignment , rather than being treated as a mixture of secretary , librarian , PA and headhunting dogsbody . |
| 23 | Marie 's still rocking — hugging herself like some of the poorly kids at school used to . |
| 24 | So , is n't it rather difficult to adapt to what must seem like some of the trivial aches and pains suffered by his patients in England ? |
| 25 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 26 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 27 | Almost immediately he was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of the small attendants . |
| 28 | It was possible that , like many of the casual spectators , the key members of the crew had all been frozen into temporary immobility by the looming presence of the ovoid , but Rostov was inclined to suspect the convenience of such a coincidence . |
| 29 | Just like many of the best adventures , it uses a point and click interface that is extremely easy to use , i.e. no typing required . |
| 30 | A description of the course penned in 1892 holds true : ‘ Like many of the best links , the Aberdovey course lies partly among the sand-hills and partly on the low ground just inside . |