Example sentences of "like it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , yeah but er it , it , there is n't a , I have n't known anything else like it on the Walsall market . |
| 2 | We were n't really in love , but it seemed a very great deal like it at the time , before we spoiled it ; we both thought we were , and how can you tell for sure when it 's the first time and you 've nothing to compare it with ? |
| 3 | ‘ Call Moinet ! ’ he ordered , walking completely into the room , ignoring Jenna 's blushes as she sat there in her nightie , which was n't particularly revealing but which felt like it at the moment . |
| 4 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 5 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 6 | Whilst it complements the architecture of its surroundings there is nothing else like it within the Square Mile . |
| 7 | Extract from a letter received from a disabled resident at Sussexdown ‘ It really is a privilege to be in such a lovely place , and to be so well cared for , there ca n't , I 'm sure , be another Home like it in the whole of Britain . ’ |
| 8 | It felt like it in the GLX , with what can only be described as feeble front-end grip , resulting in premature and excessive understeer . |
| 9 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 10 | Dr John Curtis , Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum , said yesterday that there was nothing like it in the world . |
| 11 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 12 | A description of the new house was lavish in its praise — ‘ There is nothing like it in the colony . |
| 13 | There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's a stack of cinemas in Leicester Square , ’ he said , ‘ Jake says nowhere else like it in the world . ’ |
| 15 | Normally Artemis would have responded by kicking on and flying the raspers behind the leading group , for to her way of thinking there was no feeling like it in the world . |
| 16 | " You must wear it always , dear , " she added , " and take good care of it , for there is only one other like it in the world , and that is at the bottom of the ocean with your sainted Uncle Pedro , God rest his soul . " |
| 17 | There 's not another cross like it in the world . |
| 18 | Not another like it in the world ! ’ |
| 19 | There 's something like it in the folklore of just about every culture . |
| 20 | Wherever you travel , there 's no place like it in the world . ’ |