Example sentences of "like that [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed like that for two days . |
| 2 | she 's been like that for two days now |
| 3 | he gets sixty-three years , you know , I mean what 's the use of keeping a bugger like that for sixty-three years , it 's bloody ridiculous , in n it ? |
| 4 | That is not systematic momegliture that has gone like that for ten years universities still use it ! |
| 5 | Nevertheless , even if their cosmology , like that of all religions , was expressed in fantastic terms , the Siberian natives , like the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of any land , had a rational enough view of the world which surrounded them , in addition to a wealth of practical knowledge about the forest and its fauna , and about crafts and hunting techniques . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the perception of such goodness requires a posture of submission on the part of the student of English : " His discipline , like that of all disciplines , will lie in a willing submission to a master or masterpiece . " |
| 7 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 8 | It is not as though his position is remotely like that of modern emotivists who have compared ethical statements with imperatives ( and Hare 's ethics differs most from Kant 's where it comes nearest to emotivism ) . |
| 9 | Under the microscope even the bone structure of these dinosaurs looks more like that of living mammals than cold-blooded reptiles . |
| 10 | This type of social system is very like that of many insectivores and seems to be a starting-point from which other primate societies probably developed . |
| 11 | Mario 's living , like that of many drivers , depends on their fame . |
| 12 | It seems probable that the atmosphere of Earth before the coming of life was like that of other planets which are still lifeless . |
| 13 | Clinical research showed how far the human circulation behaved like that of other animals , and how it changed as diseases advanced . |
| 14 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 15 | In some ways one might say that they wanted a life more like that of early monks — embracing poverty , chastity , even obedience . |
| 16 | Externally the cephalaspid body , like that of primitive gnathostomes , shows a heterocercal tail and paired fins ( only pectoral fins are developed in cephalaspids ) . |
| 17 | Its collective identity ( perhaps like that of English studies itself ) was structured into its range and mode of cultural production and enunciation . |
| 18 | If you were at a right angle If it If it was two right ang er angle lines like that at right angles |
| 19 | I 've had stick like that at away games but never from so-called fans who are supposed to be on your side . |
| 20 | ‘ That was n't bouncing that was being a fool , jumping over the wall like that on those springs . ’ |
| 21 | I think it 's like that with other students as well |
| 22 | If I water and then it rains it will go soft just like that with false patches . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't go from places like that with three points if you do n't have belief in yourselves . ’ |
| 24 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is like that in many lives ? |
| 26 | And nobody can imagine him like that in twenty years time . |
| 27 | They were extraordinary conditions , and you should n't attach too much importance to a score like that in those conditions . ’ |
| 28 | No I think they was just made like that in those days , yes . |
| 29 | Erm but what we will have to do is set up our local procedures as regards agents queries and things like that in both countries , both with and also whatever you decide in Denmark of how we run the procedure but that can be something later but what we 'll need to do is no doubt before we actually do the distribution to the agents and the erm the information out to them th why we 're going into on our own as opposed to being served by the other carriers . |
| 30 | Was there a shop or a beer shop or anything like that in these houses ? |