Example sentences of "like that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again . |
| 2 | I 'll be like that about the '70s . |
| 3 | So an agitation , like that over the international white slave trade in the 1900s , mined rich seams of anxiety : on the position of women , dramatised by feminism ; about the consequences of domestic and international migration ; and on the effects of rapid urban and industrial growth . |
| 4 | Almost all the harrowing experiences of indecision that can arise almost daily for conscientious parents , are like that for no other reason than that they , the parents , have not themselves been trained in the light of a reliable and respected source of guidance . |
| 5 | In practice , iteration in this case behaves rather like that for a defective matrix ( 2.7.5 ) , in that convergence is slow and successive columns tend to a quasi-arithmetic progression of the elements . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 7 | They stayed like that for a long moment and then he said , ‘ Light the candle . ’ |
| 8 | Charlotte and I sat like that for a long time , remembering . |
| 9 | They stayed like that for a long time , sometimes moving , sometimes still , the hardness of him and the warmth and softness of her blended into one . |
| 10 | He pulled me to my feet , and flung his arms around me and squeezed me as if he wanted to gather me right into himself , never let me go , and we stayed like that for a long time , not speaking , rocking to and fro . |
| 11 | They lay like that for a long time . |
| 12 | He sat like that for a long time . |
| 13 | He had talked like that for a long time now . |
| 14 | you ai n't blushed like that for a long while have you ? , yeah , that will be a holiday , watch your camp bed do n't fold up love |
| 15 | Well I do n't mind owt like that for a good cause June . |
| 16 | ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently . |
| 17 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 18 | They stayed like that for a few seconds , both breathing hard , their mouths almost touching . |
| 19 | Then , after going on like that for a few minutes he took my hand and said , ‘ Faith you were absolutely rubbish ! ’ with that famous dead-pan expression . |
| 20 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 21 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 22 | We try to keep aberrations like that to an absolute minimum — we 'd rather they did n't happen at all , obviously , but every so often the gremlins creep in . |
| 23 | Neither of them had said anything like that to the other for years . |
| 24 | The attitude of outside well-wishers has too often been like that of a left-wing friend of mine who asked in the early days of the Grunwick strike ‘ Who is doing the organising there ? ’ — as though the workers were just so much raw material waiting to be organised . |
| 25 | The captive chimpanzee would have no difficulty with mating if its mating behaviour — like that of a great many mammals — were simply triggered by the sense of smell and by hormonal or pheromonal stimulation . |
| 26 | To use the words of Henry James : ‘ in the light , strange and coloured , like that of a painted picture , which fixed the impression for her , objects took on values not hitherto so fully shown ’ . |
| 27 | Cleo thought he had a trickster 's face , like that of a malevolent clown . |
| 28 | His face , with its wrinkled , pallid complexion , looked for all the world like that of a nervous squirrel monkey . |
| 29 | Paper states that such facilities , can make a child 's experience of writing more like that of a real writer " . |
| 30 | The name Alnasr Alwasheek somehow just does n't roll off the tongue like that of a 2,000 Guineas winner and would rank high among a long list of awkward names of Arab-owned horses . |