Example sentences of "like [det] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " 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 | So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had been fucking like this for a few months , slyly , without letting on to the outside world . |
| 8 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 9 | 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 . |