Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Acciòn Nacional initially provided a temporary home not only for realists like the Salamanca lawyer José Maria Gil Robles , who in his memoirs ( published thirty years later ) was to admit to always having been ‘ a monarchist at heart ’ , but also for monarchist die-hards . |
| 2 | Many long exchanges are carried out entirely through metaphors like ‘ the snake always sheds his skin ’ . |
| 3 | So for experts like you , is it something you could have expected last night ? |
| 4 | There is also expected to be a wave of public support for health workers especially as hospitals like those in London face closure . |
| 5 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 6 | Which would have Previously would have been the preserve only of papers like the Independent or the Times or the or the Guardian . |
| 7 | By the end of our period immigrants formed a substantial majority not only of countries like Australia , and of cities like New York and Chicago , but of Stockholm , Christiania ( the present Oslo ) , Budapest , Berlin and Rome ( between 55 and 60 per cent ) of Paris and Vienna ( c. 65 per cent ) . |
| 8 | Travel insurance and other services that once came only with cards like American Express 's gold card became commonplace . |
| 9 | Especially with things like Top Of The Pops , which is designed to make dance bands look shit . |
| 10 | It 's not an ‘ instant ’ way of playing , whereas , especially with units like the Trace Elliot here , using a plectrum tightens up the response time in terms of attack . |
| 11 | Especially with songs like Too Much , which was in an unusual key for us at the time . |
| 12 | This is especially so with writers like Barthes and Genet , and Wilde and Gide before them , who , far from subordinating their outlawed sexuality to their radical politics or radical aesthetics , actively inform them with it . |
| 13 | It therefore seems most appropriate to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation , together with terms like " log " or " picture " discussed above . |
| 14 | When the freak accident wrote-off WF502 everyone was devastated at the loss of the full crew but it was not very long before remarks like ‘ well that 's the last one ’ were being bandied about . |
| 15 | He encouraged an honest , very personal response to things seen and all this , long before terms like " childcentred " and " experiential learning " became fashionable . |
| 16 | Sadly , the Second World War took a heavy toll , especially in cities like Cologne , Ulm , Hildesheim and Lübeck . |
| 17 | I offered to go with her for company and safety really , since it was dangerous to go out alone in conditions like that . |
| 18 | Jackie wondered how often he had eaten himself to sleep alone in rooms like this and if he had seen much more of Mr Harker than Evelyn , his supposed sister , had . |
| 19 | Only if the House of Lords decides that it is appropriate that it should decide the uncertified point should it do so , perhaps in circumstances like those in Gallagher where the certified issue and the question ultimately determined by the House of Lords were not easily disentangled . |
| 20 | Although many German collectors buy in a higher range , they do so in metropolises like New York and London , not Cologne . |
| 21 | Perhaps alongside giants like Oz and It there was room for an A5-sized fold-out paper devoted exclusively to listings . |
| 22 | Plagues were experienced from time to time , particularly where people were crowded together in places like London , which suffered the Great Plague in 1665 , followed by the Great Fire in 1666 , which the Roman Catholics on the Continent declared was a punishment for the beheading of King Charles I. In the event , the Great Fire enabled King Charles II , who took control in September 1666 , to arrange the clearance of the fire devastated area and to rebuild the City of London with Christopher Wren in charge of the plan , so that the mass of narrow streets were replaced , to a great extent , by wider , straighter roads , with some magnificent building , including St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 23 | They buy the records and the video , so on days like this I must come out and see them and say ‘ Thank you ’ because I am in their debt . |
| 24 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 25 | The other thing to avoid is swaying backward and forward so that you are alternately bellowing and whispering , fading out or disappearing entirely at intervals like a badly tuned radio station ! |
| 26 | Catching sight of his reflection in the window he felt a surge of self-pity and suddenly realized that he missed Ellen very badly , and that it was only at moments like this , when he surprised himself , that he could admit how much he needed her . |
| 27 | The way in which the privileged were eventually led , not only by writers like Loudon but also by some of the greatest Victorian novelists , to consider whether the houses of the poor were comfortable or not , together with the consequences of their interest , will be the theme of this chapter . |
| 28 | This cautionary tale does not seem to have deterred the punters , who have bought copiously in the vintages 1985 ( charming , forward wines ) , 1986 ( a classic vintage for the Cabernet Sauvignon grape , and thus for wines like Latour and Mouton-Rothschild ) and 1988 ( sometimes combining the charm of 1985 with the concentration of 1986 ) . |
| 29 | There are products to help with every activity — the local sporting goods store has specialized equipment not just for sports like hockey and baseball but even 80-dollar pants designed for walking . |
| 30 | Er some of you I suspect are already into things like bucketshop flights . |