Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colin diverges slightly from the McKenna party line that psychedelics should be taken on your own with the help of someone like a psychotherapist , and for illumination rather than recreation . |
| 2 | got sort of something like a couple of Yeah . |
| 3 | Faye patted her growing belly as if already determined to shield her own child from the pain of something like a divorce . |
| 4 | Updates can be applied to individual sheets or , in the case of something like a heading change , to all of them simultaneously . |
| 5 | The lawful carrying of something like a car jack which is used to cause injury on the spur of the moment does not necessarily make it an offensive weapon ( R. v. |
| 6 | The drone of something like a vacuum cleaner or hair dryer — so-called ‘ white noise ’ — often sends a fractious baby to sleep , or at least stops her grizzling . |
| 7 | Then , of course , he 'd send his friends similar notes — ca n't stay tonight , got terrible earache , or my mother 's not very well — because for something like a year or more , he was having a double affair with , — dare I mention her name — Natasha Kornilof , who was a great friend of mine . |
| 8 | With up to 8Mb on the motherboard there probably is n't any need for expansion if the machine is used solely as a network station , but it would 've been nice to find a PCMCIA slot for something like a modem . |
| 9 | For him to die of pneumonia was really a terrible waste and I think David harboured a little … you ca n't blame someone for something like a person dying tragically with pneumonia , but I think he felt his mother should have watched over him more carefully , but I suppose that 's like saying the cat got drowned , why was the puddle there ? |
| 10 | There was nothing more boring than flogging around , looking for something like a bike without lights . |
| 11 | When she 's crying with pain for something like a migraine headache , I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand . |
| 12 | Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman . |
| 13 | The phrase ‘ The Age of Criticism ’ seems to have been the invention of the American poet Randall Jarrell ; and like the Enlightenment , and some other dignified terms of intellectual history , it began as something like a term of dismissal . |
| 14 | Even for the reader who can generalize , it is difficult to be objective about something like a cat . |
| 15 | It provides us with something like a snapshot of meaning . |
| 16 | ‘ No , no , ’ she said , with something like a simper . |
| 17 | You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in . |
| 18 | " Well , we 'd better ask him , then , " said Bigwig , with something like a sneer . |
| 19 | He was battered on the head with something like a bannister rail or rounders bat and probably slammed against a wall , the prosecution alleged . |
| 20 | Crystal and crew milk their dilemma for laughs and overlay it with sentiment , transforming their ordeal into something like a group therapy session , with cows . |
| 21 | with this film it will be , you know , compulsory , you wo n't be able to make that choice , erm and the other one , the other thing that struck me just from one of the particular extracts of , of people standing on top of this cliff , erm is , is the way that the importance of , in something like a film where it 's , you know , it 's done for good , you know the importance of having an actual creative writer |
| 22 | Simply click on your graph view and you 'll find yourself in something like a paint program . |
| 23 | He theorized that she went into a shop and lashed out a bob or two on something like a tin of baked beans . |
| 24 | Neither the neo-Nazi thugs nor the Republicans who threaten to do well at the polls next year point to anything like a return to the days of Hitler . |
| 25 | They may fight like a lion or go at something like a bull at a gate . |
| 26 | It would encourage pupils to relate to their own uniqueness as a normal activity — not as something done in special sessions or requiring special structures or special input by someone like a teacher . |