Example sentences of "like [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one mistake you know forget something and you 'll be going round like this five pints I use , I use to see quite a lot of things missing you know in a certain time |
| 2 | Not like some snotty sisters I could name … ’ |
| 3 | But like many contemporary lawyers he combined this taste with a concern for current politics . |
| 4 | After the second world war , cricket tried to regain its place in village life but like many other traditions it seems to have died . |
| 5 | According to The Sun — which published the leaked tape — the Queen says : ‘ Like many other families we have lived through some difficult days this year . ’ |
| 6 | But like many other nations we have been deeply concerned by the violence in the Baltics , and we have communicated that concern to the Soviet leadership . |
| 7 | Like many M-type supergiants it is variable ; the official range is from 3.0 to 3.8 , but for most of the time it is comparable with Kappa Ophiuchi ( 3.2 ) which makes a convenient comparison star . |
| 8 | Although I had n't met him before , like many would-be adventurers I 'd read a lot about his life and experiences . |
| 9 | Like many old soldiers he liked to be by himself , to reflect well away from others . |
| 10 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 11 | Like all new lovers they made love all night , laughed , stopped for a cigarette whose smoke tantalised in the lazy glow of the room . |
| 12 | Like all other departments we have been established a very long time and therefore have the experience and the knowledge in dealing with lettings . |
| 13 | The Sergeant-Major had said that like all other legionnaires we would learn to sing in perfect time , so sing we would . |
| 14 | Like all good pantomimes it scrambled history and myth with some good topical jokes . |
| 15 | Like all good secretaries she had acquired or at least known how to simulate , some of the idealised attributes of wife , mother , mistress , confidante , servant and friend without being , or indeed expecting to be , any of these . |
| 16 | Like all such oppositions it was cliquy , largely conversational , expressing itself in ‘ private grievances , expressive silences , above all in abstention from praise or at the most , timid insinuations ’ . |
| 17 | But like all such moments it came to an end , yet not before she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was not the only one affected . |
| 18 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 19 | But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence . |
| 20 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 21 | Like all young Germans she was compelled to join the Hitler Youth organisation . |
| 22 | Like all young men I must make a journey . |
| 23 | It 's like all these things they say when you go to the vet and that . |
| 24 | Like all these things you have to look at the bright side . |
| 25 | ‘ Facts … like all those facts you had on those sheets this morning ? ’ |
| 26 | Chapter 9 , ‘ Living Language ’ , points out that this aural memory-bank of speech and language continues to grow , and like all growing things it needs nourishing . |
| 27 | Like all juvenile troupes they had to go to court every Monday in a new town to obtain a licence to work . |
| 28 | Like all Orthodox churches it was divided into three sections . |
| 29 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 30 | She always does — without much faith in what she is doing , like those anti-fascist chores she used to take on until recently ( I should n't talk about that really ) . |