Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] thing like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it , again if you 'd only do things like jogging it will build up , if you 've got the right conditions , your heart y y your heart and lung ability , but in order to have this stamina that we 're talking about you 've got to have power . |
| 2 | Like , how do you know what goes on , like with , dolphins , with whales , with all sorts of species of animals , like we do n't know , well we 're so dense we can only see things like this ! |
| 3 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 4 | so having things like division by a matrix , when the matrix happens to be zero . |
| 5 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 6 | It is not difficult to derive more information from the basic recorded information by combining two or more parameters , and thus to establish things like rate of climb or descent and rate of change of airspeed . |
| 7 | You ca n't just do things like that , on a whim . ’ |
| 8 | But Gran was n't giving anything away , just saying things like ‘ Aye ’ and ‘ Aye , well ’ , and ‘ Not so bad ’ . |
| 9 | Well you just keep things like that to yourself . |
| 10 | Not that I mind but it just means things like painting and decorating what you looking |
| 11 | Just to get things like slide shows or erm videos and things , you know , that 's how we 're gon na |
| 12 | organizing the raffles just to get things like slide shows organized videos organized just a little bit of help . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry I know Andy would n't normally say things like that . |
| 14 | Then they could have sex on a tiger skin by an open fire ; actresses always owned things like tiger skins . |
| 15 | ‘ They always say things like that in June . |
| 16 | You always remember things like birthdays , somehow . |
| 17 | Before I left school , the local papers were full of me , They were always saying things like ‘ This boy will go all the way to the top ’ and that , and I suppose you could say I took notice of the media . |
| 18 | He was always saying things like this . |
| 19 | They were al always doing things like that in Dallas and Dynasty though are n't they ? |
| 20 | No no my dad thinks , he said he , he just said , he said cos when he was at Wellington he said there was this one boy and he used to go out under a bush or something and smoke and smoke and smoke all the time and stuff and he knew and everyone knew you see and he said that 's fine , you know , you can go and do things like that as long as you do n't get caught but like doing things like that in house and , and it 's like you 're the ideal for the removes and the younger people in the school , it 's like they see all the upper , lower and upper sixth smoking and screwing and they think God we want to go , we want to go and try it out , you know , cos that 's sheep |
| 21 | Oh I used to like making things like that cos he makes things for the London museum . |
| 22 | Yeah , but bearing in mind erm , point there as well , you 'd also need things like Cover Master Living Insurance , to give a lump sum if the client , if that person died |
| 23 | You could also add things like a new porch or garage , improved security measures , or make improvements to interior decor . |
| 24 | The organizer can also say things like ‘ the tide turns ’ which means everyone changes direction ; ‘ the sea got rougher ’ which means everyone goes faster ; and ‘ the eels were hopping mad ’ which means all eels have to hop . |
| 25 | And I think that analysis allowed me , on personal terms , eventually to understand things like incest , like you were saying Elizabeth , sexual violence and things like that , that I think had really weakened me as a person . |
| 26 | They remember that and they love you for it even more , so when you go back , you have this staunch hard core group of fans that really bring things like that to a head , that really make it happen for you . |
| 27 | Applied to religion , people often say things like this : " I ca n't stand all the incense , candles and ceremony , and above all the sermons , so I 'm having nothing to do with religion " ; " I go to church because I love the music " . |
| 28 | You often put things like ar er like er dining chairs which have got awkward-shaped backs up there , cover them with wrappers and place them there . |
| 29 | Matt often says things like that and he 's usually right . |
| 30 | ‘ But do you often remember things like that ? ’ |