Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 2 | It means , too , that these communities have been disproportionately affected by social security changes relating to families , like the change in the benefit position of 16- and 17-year-olds ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 4 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 5 | According to age-old local legends , the meaning of the word Carno comes from a hill in the centre of the Parish called ‘ clorin ’ because it is shaped like the back of a horse ; the Welsh farmers ’ word for the tail of a foal is ‘ torir clorin ’ . |
| 6 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 7 | It 's got like the back of the supermarket , back of the er Marks and Spencers . |
| 8 | Living alone was like the idea of a hairshirt to George . |
| 9 | Some firms that make TV sets like the idea of the tree and branch system because it means that profitable electronics must be built into the receivers which they sell . |
| 10 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 11 | It is not a large island , perhaps nine miles by five , with formidable cliffs to the north-west that face the weather rather like the prow of a ship . |
| 12 | If there 's a dinner or special occasion like the installation of the Chancellor , she might be bringing wine up from the stores , overseeing the table lay-out , arranging flowers , scheming the candles and napkins . |
| 13 | No doubt , Dej 's cronies had enjoyed access to the small pleasures of life which were increasingly denied to their subjects by the impact of their own economic policies , but it is the tawdry nature of men like the Minister of the Interior , Tudor Postelnicu , which is so unattractive . |
| 14 | Newcomers also flourished : small feral plants unsuitable for floral displays , flowers without names , petals like paper , of faint and impure colours , tinged like the areas between a rainbow 's bands . |
| 15 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 16 | It looked like the door of a prison . |
| 17 | Not sure of the music policy , but the name sounds like the ingredients of a takeaway from a less salubrious Chinese . |
| 18 | Like the Tin-Man in The Wizard of Oz , rigid under the apple trees , she needed oil . |
| 19 | I ask you to think of that half century as a movement , like the flow of a river . |
| 20 | To see what the means , you really have to go to one of the national UFO events , something like The Phantoms Of The Sky conference , which took place in Sheffield this summer . |
| 21 | the , the activists who then can go out I , like the disciples in a sense erm to , to the , to the new membership . |
| 22 | In so far as the anchoress is seeking Christ lost in the soul , she is like the disciples in the boat on the sea of Galilee lost in the storm ( Matthew 13:44 ) who woke the sleeping Jesus to save them from destruction : But underlying the cry of the anchoress is the constant calling of God which alone enables her cry : " oure lord and all whilk wilen herken to hym ( 50.323a. – 122 ) . |
| 23 | Giving him a name reassured them ; he was not some strange exotic phenomenon but something familiar like the title of a book . |
| 24 | She looked like the daughter of a missionary ; and I do n't mean that in a derogatory way . |
| 25 | He distinguished between different kinds of final cause , some of which , like the purpose of the eye , could be identified . |
| 26 | When listening to cases in court you should do so not passively , like the spectator of a play , but with active thought , as though you were yourself taking part ; framing in your mind during the examination-in-chief the questions you would put to the witness if the cross-examination fell to you . |
| 27 | Allow about five folded pieces of blotting paper to one directory , spacing them equally so that the pages of the directory act like the newspaper in the press . |
| 28 | A main feeder lava tunnel often branches towards the terminus of a flow rather like the distributaries of a river delta . |
| 29 | The lower jaw fits snugly into the groove when the jaws are shut , like the blade of a penknife fitting into its handle . |
| 30 | It is not an unalterable ‘ given ’ , like the composition of the Earth 's core . |