Example sentences of "like [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EAST Germany 's vast security police apparatus , once a fearsome state within a state , looks like becoming the next centre of Stalinist power to fall to the country 's ‘ people power ’ revolution . |
| 2 | Perhaps the Indians thought it was a religious thing , like celebrating the 500th anniversary of a cathedral or whatever . |
| 3 | It is like running the first 100 metres like Carl Lewis , getting into gear but pushing really hard for the whole race as you go along . |
| 4 | This is rather like saying the second world war only started when the doodlebugs started falling . |
| 5 | Listening to the OAE in Mozart is like hearing the nineteenth century shovelled out of the way . ’ |
| 6 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |