Example sentences of "[vb base] [noun] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An' con artists like Retaa 've an'ol'Perrishikk . |
| 2 | In West Africa and other areas where there is heavy rain , the colonies build nests like mushrooms with flat roofs which shed the water . |
| 3 | Yes and you know bedroom say things like cunt cos your mum is n't very |
| 4 | If we 're just talking about the niceties of the way these things are laid out , previous set of procedures say things like page one-o-two , page one-o-three etc , and I think that is probably good practice if you can look at a page number and so you know exactly how many pages to expect so , we can probably do that when we re-issue these procedures as well . |
| 5 | They say things like David 's sexy legs are going to stop them passing their Chemistry ‘ A ’ Level , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they 're saying , mm I say people like Simon and Doreen who do n't erm televise much and you 've got the telephone you told me do n't you ? |
| 7 | ‘ Lee Clark certainly has the potential to score a lot of goals and I expect people like Brian Kilcline to hit some from set pieces . ’ |
| 8 | Theists who explore notions like existence in order to express the presence of a transcendent God presume this inherent incompleteness in reality . |
| 9 | Here they have been positioned between the strings and it is attention to minor details like these which make companies like Ibanez worthy of the laurels heaped upon them . |
| 10 | There are river cities — London and Paris — and waterfront cities like Chicago , Beirut and Havana ; and there are island cities . |
| 11 | Because they 're almost there — unlike previous white soul or funk aspirants like Kevin Rowland or A Certain Ratio who fell so far shod of their ambitions they inadvertently created something different , these groups have , through graft and expense , come close , and so clog the second division of pop-soul . |
| 12 | This produces the heavy inflexible armour of the beetles , and mouthparts sharp and tough enough to gnaw through timber and even cut metals like copper and silver . |
| 13 | But if you cause trouble like Patrick , out you go . ’ |
| 14 | In the end the Middlesex authorities asked Andrew to leave — so many show people like Ken and Diana Dors came to see him that the noise along the corridors was unbearable . |
| 15 | ‘ Children show scars like medals . |
| 16 | One of the purposes of capital gains taxes is to prevent individuals from avoiding tax by converting their income into a capital gain : individual choices could be distorted and people might , for example , seek assets like oil paintings as opposed to bonds . |
| 17 | And they put ale like home-brew ale on their porridge . |
| 18 | And thinking about your district , I mean places like Pickering and Malton are too far away to be satisfactorily considered , are they ? |
| 19 | ‘ They wire money like angels ’ said Wilde . |
| 20 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 21 | ‘ Through my studies I have come to understand that the way humans view animals like primates in a negative light is wrong . |
| 22 | THANKS LARGELY to Doris Day , pop singers like Sandra Dee , Helen Shapiro and Connies Stevens and Francis , were sweetly feminine — nice girls , all looking for that one special guy , in their songs at least . |
| 23 | We read qualities like sincerity , anger , sexuality and warmth into performers because of the way they organize the signs of their personality . |
| 24 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 25 | Rather the company envisages the use of Object Cobol with object-oriented analysis and design , and an analyst will not go into the detail of strings and numbers , but simply view things like accounts and customers as objects . |
| 26 | Interesting high-profile autobiographies that drop names like confetti : in Well , I Forget The Rest ( Hutchinson , £17.99 ) , Quentin Crewe , thrice-married , confesses : ‘ It has never taken me longer than a week-end to fall in love , usually less . ’ |
| 27 | It is a terrible , solitary kind of life , whereby I can not for instance have people with whom I can discuss my writing , unless I leave the country and meet people like Bessie Head , who died , or Buchi Emecheta and Ama Ata Aidoo . |
| 28 | But by and large you 're putting yourself through hell just to squeeze out that last drop of RAM that you wo n't actually use : you run programs like WordPerfect 5.1 which can run in 512Kb , so memory is n't important here . |
| 29 | and I mean things like disrepair , erm inadequate heating , erm noise from other tenants , erm |
| 30 | But I mean stuff like memos small memos and things like that by the time I 've sat and written it out I could 've put it straight onto a word processor myself and got it typed . |