Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 2 | Sir John Ure , commissioner general of the British pavilion , is also confident that Expo will succeed , but injects a note of caution : ‘ It 's a very tall order for Spain to mount something like this . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's an honour to get something like this , especially when it 's a complete surprise , ’ says Joan , from Hambleton , near Selby , North Yorkshire . |
| 4 | ‘ … he had no right to hit you like that ! ’ |
| 5 | He was n't a part of her life any more , he had no right to treat her like this ! |
| 6 | ‘ I know some people overrun their visas , but Caroline was not the sort to do anything like that . ’ |
| 7 | Apart from the 90mins one Sunil mentioned did nt one of the tabloids have an ad on Monday to start something like that up ? |
| 8 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 9 | Because they consider themselves to be strong , in power , in positions of power and coping well , and then all of a sudden to have something like this war going and carpet bombing going on and the use of chemical weapons and germ warfare . |
| 10 | ‘ No need to take it like that . |
| 11 | There 's no need to take it like that … |
| 12 | I have heard several organisations talking about the magic million , but as soon as you probe deeper , you soon discover that they do n't have the expertise or the infrastructure to collect anything like this sum . |
| 13 | What I would n't give for Jim to do something like this — just occasionally . |
| 14 | I have to have an excuse to do something like that . |
| 15 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 16 | The average over-weight person tends to imagine the slim person 's day to go something like this . |
| 17 | For some 330,000 electors to acquire anything like that " sufficient personal knowledge " , self-advertisement would have to become the MP 's chief preoccupation . |
| 18 | But it was still a shock to see her like that , looking so old and spent . ’ |
| 19 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
| 20 | I do n't think I 'll get the chance to do anything like this again . |
| 21 | It was a funny feeling to meet someone like that and feel that way . |
| 22 | And that do n't take a week , week to test anything like that ! |
| 23 | She said thoughtfully , ‘ I suppose I 'm just gullible , allowing a man 's sheer showmanship to affect me like that . ’ |
| 24 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 25 | He 's bit and bridle , ball and chain , a rope to tether me like any other animal . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd been asking Peggy to get something like that for ages . |
| 27 | ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 28 | You do n't think of your children to do something like that do you ? |
| 29 | It 's quite a brave thing to invite somebody like this into your home . |
| 30 | In fact , she had wanted to get away from Julius to stop something like this happening . |