Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 2 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 3 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 4 | Er , preferably the front of it , erm , they look something like this . |
| 5 | They set something like 50,000 km of net a night , enough to go around the equator one and a quarter times . |
| 6 | Can your B-I-L at least divulge whether todays players do actually save loads of dosh , or whether they squander it like most people do ? |
| 7 | All of these are useful , and collectively they offer nothing like enough . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 10 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
| 11 | They have something like 40 players and they are very competitive and very strong and they caused us a lot of problems . |
| 12 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |