Example sentences of "i [verb] [indef pn] like " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Why should I want someone like you , whose squalid dreams of passion can encompass no more than the petty attentions of a man like Jones ? |
2 | I mean nothing like burns into the pot you know what I mean ? |
3 | mm , well it depends on the touring pattern as well because I mean something like Communicado can sort of kind of do a week here , or a fortnight somewhere |
4 | that 's it , I mean something like that , you know , we 'll work something |
5 | ‘ It is interesting when I bring someone like Rodney Marsh here for the first time to see his reaction . |
6 | Torquay was the last place I expected something like this to happen . ’ |
7 | Not that I expect someone like you to ’ |
8 | yeah , because as I say something like what Jane 's got would fit in that fireplace , just right |
9 | I want one like what Lisa 's got . |
10 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
11 | It was a headline that did it , I think I put something like , ‘ Like Lambrettas To The Slaughter ’ … |
12 | So if I put something like this erm okay ? |
13 | Have I done anything like it before ? |
14 | never in my life had I done anything like this before . |
15 | I 'm just … well , I meet someone like you with whom I feel instant affinity , to whom I 'm instantly attracted and … |
16 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
17 | I reckon something like this *might* work , depending on local arrangements : |
18 | I believe something like this to be very much the case . |
19 | Again , I believe something like this to be very much the case . |
20 | I think it 'll all go ahead and we 'll get the money but meanwhile before we knew about , we did do a lot of fund raising and we got some money in er I suppose something like a thousand pounds . |
21 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
22 | I suppose something like that . |
23 | And Proust 's relationship with Agostinelli , over a period of I suppose something like seven years , undoubtedly contributed a certain amount to the main outline of the Marcel-Albertine affair in the novel . |
24 | ‘ I knew something like this would happen , ’ she whispered . |
25 | ‘ You see , I knew nothing like that . ’ |
26 | I counted something like and at the moment it appertains just to the telephone system and regard to the enquiry system . |
27 | Thus I was , albeit subconsciously , prepared for his death , and I recall saying to my mother when she broke the , news one morning that " I thought something like this might happen . " |
28 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
29 | I thought something like that would be quite handy to have |
30 | Er so erm Yes I think something like that would would be erm |