Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] something like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 2 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 3 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 4 | Oh I seem to remember something like that . |
| 5 | So We know the graph is going to look something like this . |
| 6 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 7 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 8 | And I 'd like to do something like that again . |
| 9 | I mean I 'd like to do something like that , but you could n't sell it |
| 10 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 11 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 12 | Well if you , all I was going to say is , if you 're going to get something like that , I mean we could buy something that would make a set . |
| 13 | He 's no option he 's got to have something like this . |
| 14 | ‘ You know , I was rather afraid you were going to say something like that . ’ |
| 15 | Well a can of worms , or a heap of possibilities , whichever way that you want to put it , but the Children Act in total we are going to spend something like another four hundred thousand in nineteen ninety one , in the new financial year , which is good news . |
| 16 | I 'll have to say something like that before long . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always wanted to do something like that , ’ she confided to me . |
| 18 | Erm , ampersand is is quite interesting , you all know that symbol , because it 's used in handwriting , although nowadays , it , nowadays you would tend to use something like that I do n't know , what , do you , do you , do you sort of if you want to write and quickly . |
| 19 | extremely normal , because erm , I do n't think N M E interviewers would bother to do something like this . |
| 20 | ‘ You can be sure that the Greeks have been trying to organise something like this since ‘ The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent ’ was such a success in America ’ , he added , referring to a travelling exhibition of objects from Turkish collections , organised by the National Gallery in 1987 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd love to do something like that , ’ said Eileen . |
| 22 | Si tendria que hacer una cosa como ésa , me gustaria [ POSSIBLE ] — ‘ If I had to do something like that , I 'd like it ’ |
| 23 | Many of us from experience wish to say something like this : ‘ Lord , I do not have the ability to comprehend how you feed me through such simple gifts as this piece of bread or wafer or that sip of wine — but I know you do ! ’ |
| 24 | And they may have already chosen to put something like that on the back . |
| 25 | If I wanted to have something like that , I 'd get a good programmer in on the project . |
| 26 | Quite entitled to produce something like that photocopied on his own photocopier . |