Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the ages of man and all the races of Islam seemed to be represented : mustachioed Arabs , dark-skinned Somalis , small South Indians in lungis , huge Delhi businessmen bulging out of their pyjamas , prodigiously bearded Afghans swathed in shawls like Old Testament prophets — all of them surging up through the Meena Bazaar towards the Jama Masjid steps . |
| 2 | And erm maybe , the text for the day could be , some of the language we used in services like that . |
| 3 | If tension was so high in an area not stricken by famine , it may be assumed that as much or more violence occurred in regions like the Ukraine and Tambov guberniia , which were nearly as badly off as the Volga . |
| 4 | Being a mere woman she objected to phrases like ‘ twinkling nipples ’ . |
| 5 | First , as will be demonstrated below , he tends to underplay the severity of the violence which occurred at places like Grunwick and Hadfields during a period supposedly devoid of such conflict . |
| 6 | One of his members had a dealers license and drove to cities like Houston to buy and sell at gun fairs . |
| 7 | There were crazies like Vittorio Brambilla : when I asked him if he raced in conditions like this , what about his wife and kids ? |
| 8 | Out in force a week or so prior to the start of the meeting , they hunted for stories like lions seeking water on a drought-ridden veldt , lingering outside the security fences and eyeing the carabinieri , who would let none through without the appropriate pass . |
| 9 | ON hearing the news , the Amnesty office resounded with words like Brilliant ! |
| 10 | The courts of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious had constituted major centres of demand not only for peasant surpluses but for items of conspicuous consumption purveyed via emporia like Dorestad and Quentovic . |
| 11 | Mr Deng 's dash for rural freedom began in villages like one a few miles outside Chengdu , Sichuan 's capital . |
| 12 | A hypnotic orator , McKenna can be heard on the album track ‘ Re-evolution ’ , delivering bite-sized chunks of the philosophy he developed in books like Food Of The Gods and The Archaic Revival . |
| 13 | ‘ Your ancestors probably lived in holes like this , ’ said Grimma . |
| 14 | And how could people who lived in places like this , farm or city , manage to support a God-King in limitless luxury ? |
| 15 | Muscles the size of melons bulged in forearms like floursacks . |
| 16 | Okay now we talked about things like as Tony said body language er we talked about things like er contact with the audience but what fundamentally are we doing when we stand up here ? |
| 17 | He had always thought that poets grossly overstated things when they talked of eyes like stars . |
| 18 | ‘ When you worked with Directors like Christopher Barry or Douglas Camfield , initially you 'd spend endless time in discussions , working out the best way to shoot a script . |
| 19 | He worked with men like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon . |
| 20 | Suitable for cutting & bedding , interplanted with plants like forget-me-nots and wallflowers . |
| 21 | I started with substances like petrol , then it was acid and heroin . |
| 22 | How could she presume to argue with them when she knew nothing — nothing — and they lived and worked in situations like this ? |
| 23 | possibly churchwarden pipes ( clay pipes with very long stems ) tied in bundles like faggots . |
| 24 | Here are two examples of the beginnings of stories which evolved from questions like the above : l . |
| 25 | His remarks are devastating for emerging British riders striving to follow the golden trail blazed by legends like Colonel Harry Llewellyn who won Britain 's first equestrian gold with ‘ Foxhunter ’ at Helsinki in l952 . |
| 26 | This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis . |
| 27 | Support for it has come from the observation that both the brain and the conventional digital computer ( i.e. the one hard-wired only for its machine code ) seem to be surprisingly homogeneous in their internal structure , which led to remarks like Newell 's ( 1973 ) ‘ … intelligent behaviour demands only a few very general features in the underlying mechanism ’ . |
| 28 | But whereas these ideas of the ‘ correlation of forces ’ led to insights like those of Oersted and Faraday in electromagnetism , they did not lead to the restructuring of the various sciences . |
| 29 | If you put on the pink and rode to hounds like English gentlefolk these days , some wee feller with an Armalite would blow your head off . |
| 30 | We flew also to France ( Epernay ) which was one of our bomber airfields and we operated to places like Prague . |