Example sentences of "like [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was the relationship like between the men and women , er the men and women cleaners even ? |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , well , you know what Beryl is like about the country … |
| 3 | Assuming ( as we all do ) that our experience is somehow intrinsically different from the bat 's , how could we even conceive of what the bat 's experience is really like — that is to say , what it is like for the bat ? |
| 4 | What must it be like for the lads in Riyadh or Tehran , watching the women of their choice swoop around the supermarkets in twenty-five yards of black drapery ? |
| 5 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 6 | But we knew what life was like for the children of Vietnam — and we were determined to see change . |
| 7 | The musical flavour will be supplied by Edinburgh 's own Tam White and the Caledonian Brewery are laying on some of their amber liquid and pies to give you just a taste of what the atmosphere will be like during the weekend 13–15 August . |
| 8 | Oh there are no , you know with the gaff this time , a lot of work like during the week and that and we 've tightened up quite a bit and tried to you know , get ourselves organised . |
| 9 | But , he pointed out , no one could possibly conceive what life would be like after the death of images . |
| 10 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 11 | To change propose like after the season , |
| 12 | One morning in his childhood he came downstairs , opened a door ‘ and it was like below the decks of an old galleon complete with hammocks hanging up ’ . |
| 13 | Yes , there must be be a reason and as I 'm sure , I mean like like the objective , and then what you can do at this stage in the design process is once you 've got the objective then you select those themes or ideas from your what you 've done just now to support that objective , so that when you come up my objective is to convince you or my objective is to inform you then the information that you 're going to give out supports that objective . |
| 14 | Yeah it 's all organised , it 's not like like the gypo 's will be doing like this |
| 15 | I know it 's like it 's like like the train station , is n't it ? |
| 16 | Like like the tripod ? |
| 17 | Flat-dwellers have probably forgotten what the front of their block looks like behind the forest of advertisments . |
| 18 | ‘ You know what Jack 's like with the ladies . ’ |
| 19 | I asked him to describe what the atmosphere in the dressing room is like with the rest of the team . |
| 20 | then I would like er we 'd just talk about , I do n't know whatever , she 'd probably agree with everything I said as well because that 's what Catherine 's like but when she 's like with the rest of us she |
| 21 | Once , in one of his younger sermons ( Liverpool , on John 20 : 21–2 ) , he gave a hint of what it was like with the psychologist . |
| 22 | A bit like with the keyboards is n't it two keyboards for a birthday present . |
| 23 | You know what she 's like with the dog |
| 24 | It was more like in the direction of the school . |
| 25 | What was the accommodation like in The Chantry and in the four bedroom house in which you spent most of your life , what , what was that , what was that like ? |
| 26 | Oh now we went out like in the night time and . |
| 27 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 28 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 29 | But the things is , he wanted to a lot of things about came up like in the middle |
| 30 | Erm I du n no , the thing is our prom , yeah , is the day before so like I 'm gon na be pretty fucked erm two , a couple of my friends who are coming , they 've got they 're like in the middle of the ex their exams like erm I know my one friend 's driving there but he 's going from St John 's Wood , thanks , erm we might be able to pick you up , I 'm not sure , it depends what 's happening or you might go with Josh , like we 'll meet outside probably . |