Example sentences of "[vb base] something like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want something like that . |
| 2 | So you want something like that , it 's a hundred and twenty long , millimetres seventy wide |
| 3 | say something like that , oh no . |
| 4 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 5 | Rightly : arson attacks on mosques in Surrey and West Yorkshire suggest something like that may already have begun . |
| 6 | You never forget something like that , ’ says Steven , a 23-year-old supervisor at Heathrow Airport . |
| 7 | it 's only about twenty twenty , thirty , forty pee something like that . |
| 8 | earn something like two hundred quid a week to match what they 're getting now ! |
| 9 | When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it . |
| 10 | Do you , I wonder if you think your a good driver , I mean there are , I mean I , I should remind you there are five thousand people killed on Britain 's roads every year , there are sixty three thousand people seriously injured , they reckon that car accidents cost something like five thousand million pounds in Britain every year . |
| 11 | Oh we 've done two or three , we usually do one Well er I would n't regularly but probably one every year or you ken something like that . |
| 12 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 13 | So if I put something like this erm okay ? |
| 14 | Er , preferably the front of it , erm , they look something like this . |
| 15 | Gipsies wear something like that round their necks . |
| 16 | When you see Chelsea fans applaud something like that it makes you wonder . |
| 17 | The Cartesians concede something like this in the case of brute animal life . |
| 18 | But surely for the early moderns also : terminology apart , did not nosce teipsum only ever mean something like that ? |
| 19 | that 's it , I mean something like that , you know , we 'll work something |
| 20 | Many Salvadoreans fear something like this . |
| 21 | you get thirty in a bag for about well just erm for a couple of quid I think , or you get twenty four in a bag , oh I do n't know , you get something like that anyway yeah |
| 22 | Amazing int it you get something like that and it 'll go forever |
| 23 | You should do , you should do , yeah get something like that Tony |
| 24 | ‘ When you get something like this you always get souvenir hunters but the ship itself is the property of the Receiver of Wreck and it is theft to take anything from it . |
| 25 | And we get something like this . |
| 26 | So , if someone gives you like something like this say , erm ten to the minus eight , and you want to know I mean you keep seeing this . |
| 27 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 28 | When you know something like that , you have absorbed it so deeply into your consciousness that it is never likely to be displaced , except perhaps by brain-washing or frontal lobotomy . |
| 29 | be like , be a bit lonely you know something like that , that kind of line |
| 30 | Or , you know something like that but you see they what they keep thinking is that erm you know , they do n't to be together you know , on their own and this is the way I think they think . |