Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] like [art] [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 | The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox . |
| 3 | Well I mean , well that 's it , you know selection of everything like the starch foods |
| 4 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 5 | got sort of something like a couple of Yeah . |
| 6 | Faye patted her growing belly as if already determined to shield her own child from the pain of something like a divorce . |
| 7 | Updates can be applied to individual sheets or , in the case of something like a heading change , to all of them simultaneously . |
| 8 | 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. |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | There was nothing more boring than flogging around , looking for something like a bike without lights . |
| 15 | When she 's crying with pain for something like a migraine headache , I just sit in the dark with her and hold her hand . |
| 16 | For example , a Phantom may only be able to stay airborne for something like an hour and three-quarters , two hours using it 's own fuel but with a tanker there we can keep them topped virtually well , obviously until we run out of fuel and for much , much longer . |
| 17 | er full courses and I think too people tend to say about that level for something like the accountancy |
| 18 | Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 21 | Almost without question , he had accepted Kirov as something like an uncle . |
| 22 | The ego is the executive agency , the id could be regarded as something like the Congress , as o which er seen as a , as a large mass of conflicting demands . |
| 23 | Even for the reader who can generalize , it is difficult to be objective about something like a cat . |
| 24 | Though greeted with nothing like the derision that met Howarth 's six-page statement , the spokesmen encountered a fair degree of scepticism . |
| 25 | It provides us with something like a snapshot of meaning . |
| 26 | ‘ No , no , ’ she said , with something like a simper . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | " Well , we 'd better ask him , then , " said Bigwig , with something like a sneer . |
| 29 | He was battered on the head with something like a bannister rail or rounders bat and probably slammed against a wall , the prosecution alleged . |
| 30 | Everything happens so quickly on the water , though , that all you are left with is a vague impression , particularly with something like the carve gybe . |