Example sentences of "have [verb] a [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | That little Seeders has got a face like a dead potato ! |
| 2 | Constance has got a skirt like that and her boobs are just like hanging out ! |
| 3 | ‘ The art of conducting sieges ’ , wrote Frederick II , ‘ has become a trade like that of carpenter or clock-maker . |
| 4 | not while she 'd got a card like Midnight to play . ’ |
| 5 | They are reputed to have said , ‘ If we 'd had a telegram like that , we 'd have gone to the moon . ’ |
| 6 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 7 | How could she possibly have foreseen a situation like this ? |
| 8 | Her father could not possibly have owned a house like this , nor could he have owned half the things in it . |
| 9 | Even I would n't have done a thing like that ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now . |
| 12 | And Tim ever since has been going , ‘ If only I could be a cockney , Dennis , I would have made a fortune like you . ’ |
| 13 | If he had been a painter at that time , he would not have produced a picture like Beaumont 's storm scene ( 'different from this ' — this picture , line 18 ) ; he would have reproduced the tranquillity and the smiling sea , and added ‘ the light that never was ’ — the Poet 's illusions . |
| 14 | You could have had a paddle like this |
| 15 | It just gets on my nerves having to buy a pint like |
| 16 | You 'd have thought a man like that , strict , he 's supposed to be — ’ |
| 17 | Erm but I think I think certainly I would have thought a place like Reading probably half their people set the exams anyway so |
| 18 | I would have remembered a thing like that . ’ |
| 19 | Walt Disney may well have appreciated a tool like this for taking the drudgery out of the cartoon business but it has more serious applications in logo design and very effective business graphics ; one of the stock Adobe illustrations is a plot of the stock market showing a bull turning into a bear ! |
| 20 | Do you really think they would have believed a story like that ? |
| 21 | Why , Jo wondered , did she have to have a nose like a cross between a doughnut and a ski-jump ? |
| 22 | I 'd never have associated a man like Tweed with such an atrocity . ’ |
| 23 | No-one would have planned a system like it , but , the argument goes , its powers to examine and revise legislation are scarcely great enough to make it worth the bother of finding something to replace it . |
| 24 | But Sun will have to eat its words and may have to declare a product like its News windowing system dead . |
| 25 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 26 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 27 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 28 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 29 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 30 | And Bassett , indignant that Wednesday manager Trevor Francis had appealed before the match for good behaviour by both sides , said : ‘ I wonder what would have happened if one of my players had committed a foul like that . ’ |