Example sentences of "like [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed . |
| 2 | On 11 December the rumour spread that the French were landing in Pevensey Bay , like William the Conqueror 700 years earlier . |
| 3 | It 's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet — rather like Edward the Second . |
| 4 | I 'm off round the corner after it like Wally the cat ; then I pounce . |
| 5 | A deep-voiced character with five o'clock shadow all over his face and fists like Popeye the Sailor grabbed the girl by her Indian beads and slammed her up against the mantelpiece . |
| 6 | To define the data to be held in a system like QUESTOR the user types the following commands : CREATE SET EMPLOYEES INCLUDE EMP.NO(1) , NAME(A20) , DEPT(A10) … |
| 7 | The best hope is candidly to explain what one is , like Julian the camp-survivor and destroyer in A Fairly Honourable Defeat , and let others think what they may . |
| 8 | Come to us , God of justice , that we may hear the cries of the dispossessed in every land , calling us , like Jesus the healer , to walk with them in the search for justice and mercy . |
| 9 | No wonder he 's been dubbed ‘ the Ben Elton of magic ’ by Radio 1 's Steve Wright while a magazine writer said he ‘ makes Paul Daniels look like Gordon the Gopher ’ . |
| 10 | Like GCHQ the NSA has two functions . |
| 11 | For every Western aid worker , there are at least five Somali aid workers who , like Hawa the nurse , put themselves at greater risk , work longer hours for little or no money , and provide a body of local people who may be able to continue their work in health care or administration after the fighting is over . |
| 12 | Like Heatfest the survey was also unique because it brought together active tenants groups in both Glasgow , Edinburgh and London and a range of professionals — from Edinburgh University , Strathclyde University and the Glasgow Community Health Resource Unit . |
| 13 | Like Menzies the preacher ? |
| 14 | The secret of the film 's success has to be the vibrant characterisation of Mowgli 's jungle friends — creatures like Baloo the Bear , Bagheera the Panther , King Louie of the Apes , Kaa the Snake , Shere Khan the Tiger and Colonel Hathi and his elephant patrol . |
| 15 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 16 | She wanted computer games like Sonic the Hedgehog , things that he liked too . ’ |
| 17 | Instead , they are more likely to have names like Sonic The Hedgehog , Super Mario Land or Moto X Maniacs and involve little more exercise than pressing buttons . |
| 18 | ‘ But it does n't matter what they call you — with players like Harris the attraction was arrogance , terror , you name it — and the people paid to see it , week in week out . ’ |
| 19 | We live in the fading twilight of an ‘ overpubbed ’ urban world ; a world which , even within living memory , gave the citizens of a small city like York the choice to drink in a different pub for every day of the year . |
| 20 | ‘ At places like Newcastle the crowd is worth a one-and-a-half goal start to the home team . |
| 21 | Why could n't she live with granny and grandpa , and help care for them , like Dorothy the sister who was a couple of years older ? |
| 22 | Each burgess paid 7d. a year and some service for his croft , men like Lambert the shoemaker and Orderic the swineherd . |
| 23 | ‘ Like Paul the hermit , alone like a bird on his rock , naked except for his hairs . |
| 24 | This is the nature of Christian joy through suffering , which reconciles the negative with the transcendent love of Christ , enabling us to say , like Paul the apostle : ‘ I can do all things through Christ , who strengthens me . ’ |
| 25 | The people like Cloughie the toughie for his utter lack of it . |
| 26 | I churned out orgasms to order , squawking and spluttering like Sylvester the Cat on acid . |
| 27 | He was , like Aziz the janitor , definitely wearing one shoe and one slipper . |
| 28 | But the man who combined the gifts of preacher and politician , and who felt called , like John the Baptist ( or , to be exact , John the Presbyterian ) , was Foster Dulles , minister 's son , Wall Street lawyer and by divine right Secretary of State . |
| 29 | ‘ You would n't have recognized him , he looked like John the Baptist . ’ |
| 30 | Looks like John the Baptist without his beard and is about as uncompromising . |