Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [pron] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watch them like a glass |
| 2 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 3 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
| 4 | I carry her like a baby in my arms . |
| 5 | I guard them like a mother tiger , and when Nina starts to tear into them I could cheerfully strangle her , and it shows . |
| 6 | I boil it like a tea and it helps hurry the process up , if the woman is ready . |
| 7 | You want something like a little erm , like a moose you know , a moose carton |
| 8 | One small point , if you say its like a free TSB they might not want to print it ! |
| 9 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 10 | But if you put something like a wall with a slit in it in the way of the particle , the particle paths can spread out beyond the slit . |
| 11 | So what you do is you pack it like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle . |
| 12 | Well it 's you do n't spell it like cupboard you spell it like a cup board . |
| 13 | You hear these people say I do n't ask anything of my staff that I 'm not prepared to do myself , then you find something like a ninety hour week or something . |
| 14 | Just load it , it 's like , it 's like , you use it like a normal tape recorder , you just use it like a tape recorder |
| 15 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 16 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 17 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 18 | You know you treat her like a doll , Marje , do n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | I think we have something like a hundred and twenty nationalities living in Kuwait and enjoying the free school , the free hospital . |
| 20 | We are only kidding ourselves if we think that we have anything like a complete succession for any part of the stratigraphical column in any one place . |
| 21 | When wet they twist it like a rope , and beat some large stone with it , repeating the operation till it is quite clean . |
| 22 | I 'm Parish Priest and yet the pair of them treat me like a child . ’ |