Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 2 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 3 | It was a funny feeling to meet someone like that and feel that way . |
| 4 | and I 'll just , I , you know , I do n't need someone like that but the point is that he , if he knows you do n't like him , he goes out of his way to make things difficult for you . |
| 5 | He had expected something like this , and had picked his spot to call Doyle very carefully . |
| 6 | We tried one like that did n't we ? . |
| 7 | Erm most of the furniture we choose either because we know it from inventories and lists to have been the kind of thing that was in middle class households in York , or in some cases like this , where we know the 's have actually owned something like this . |
| 8 | You want something like that . |
| 9 | So you want something like that , it 's a hundred and twenty long , millimetres seventy wide |
| 10 | There 's nothing worse than keeping something like that to yourself It cracked me up terrible . |
| 11 | say something like that , oh no . |
| 12 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 13 | Rightly : arson attacks on mosques in Surrey and West Yorkshire suggest something like that may already have begun . |
| 14 | Hardy 's Wessex must have looked something like this . |
| 15 | ‘ How can you know something like this ? ’ |
| 16 | You never forget something like that , ’ says Steven , a 23-year-old supervisor at Heathrow Airport . |
| 17 | John Entwistle of the Who has one like this in his front room and Elton John is known to be a collector . |
| 18 | it 's only about twenty twenty , thirty , forty pee something like that . |
| 19 | Indeed , we will need something like this if travel to other stars , let alone to other galaxies , is to be a practical proposition in the future . |
| 20 | It looks something like that . |
| 21 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 22 | The only other thing we want to find out , so we know it looks something like this . |
| 23 | Er we have a marketing group that goes around the country doing that and when they er sign the surgery up to do the er for us to do the product or pri print the product they leave a sheet that looks something like this . |
| 24 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 25 | The rest of Pincher 's Oxford ring looks something like this . |
| 26 | What could I have done to make Justin holier than thou , say anything like that ? |
| 27 | Has anything like this happened to you because you were n't able to say ‘ No ’ ? |
| 28 | She certainly had n't expected anything like this when she had got up this morning . |
| 29 | People do n't get fined anything like that for mugging an old lady . ’ |
| 30 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |