Example sentences of "[noun] like [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are bound to miss Gary Lineker but successors like me must score a few and establish reputations of their own . ’ |
| 2 | A lady like you should appreciate such a gentlemanly gesture . ’ |
| 3 | You know I gave her the ultimatum like you can come with us but damn well I would n't have let her come . |
| 4 | He had believed that a country girl like her would find him wonderful , a college man with great ambitions . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , a grateful girl like me can put up with a few bruises , ’ said Dolly , sheet and blankets up to her chin . |
| 6 | We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live . |
| 7 | It 's only lunatics like us would make it this far . ’ |
| 8 | More groups like ours might get going to let disabled people have more say about what they want to do . ’ |
| 9 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 10 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 11 | ‘ A clever wench like thee 'll think of summat , ’ Will said with a grin . |
| 12 | If big places sell papers , businesses like mine will go down . |
| 13 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 14 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |
| 15 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 16 | Alice was to work in computers he , Andrew , would arrange for her to have a quick course of training , which would be a sufficient basis on which an intelligent woman like her could build . |
| 17 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 18 | He demanded to know of another ambassador 's wife , no longer young , what kind of impression an old and unfashionable woman like her must give of Britain abroad : why could n't she look as attractive as the young woman opposite ? |
| 19 | ‘ No , of course it does n't ; I 'm a fool to think a woman like you would give my sister a second thought . ’ |
| 20 | But I would have imagined that an intelligent woman like you would know how to get herself out of it again . ’ |
| 21 | What a magazine like ours can provide is an informed and thorough reading of the current culture . |
| 22 | As we have often said , running trains or restoring locomotives is well beyond what a small society like ours could hope to achieve , but there are several ideas I would like to explore that might be realistic . |
| 23 | In the future , colleges like his would have to sell courses and expertise widely , often linking on a franchise basis with higher education establishment , to supply components for degree and other higher qualifications while extending to younger students , the opportunity to gain a variety of academic and vocational ones . |
| 24 | Such a quantity of natural ability can sometimes cause inner confusion and players like him can turn a match on its head sometimes without knowing how it happened or how they did it . |
| 25 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing gives me more pleasure now and if I go to the to the libraries and a young lad I say a young man like you will come to me and say , Hello Nurse , How are you ? |
| 28 | " A handsome young man like you will find you 'll never be short of female companionship . " |
| 29 | And if an ugly fellow like me can find a wife … ’ |
| 30 | We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying . |