Example sentences of "[verb] like [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Truth and ahi sā are closely intertwined like two sides of a coin so are ahi sā and satyāgraha interrelated . |
| 2 | Peter looks like five , three or S three |
| 3 | They walk into the corner of the TV set and you think they 've broken their skull , but they just bounce off ; next moment they sit down very gently on their bottoms which are padded with what looks like fifteen nappies and they burst into tears . |
| 4 | It looks like two squares . |
| 5 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 6 | Fletcher said : ‘ It looks like two different pitches — one when they bowl and another when we bowl on it . ’ |
| 7 | Well it looks like two or nothing here ! |
| 8 | And it looks it looks like two ninety nine does n't it girls ? |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ Joe continued , ‘ he said she looks like one of them bloody film stars . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It looks like one hell of a mess , Paul . ’ |
| 11 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 12 | Not least when their percussionist hits an artificial tree containing a drum sampler , two car wheels and a vacuum cleaner that looks like one of Ministry 's skeleton mic stands . |
| 13 | In many ways it looks like one big cytochrome oxidase blob ! |
| 14 | That famous grin looks like one more performance . |
| 15 | From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier . |
| 16 | You 've got margins set at looks like one point three inches on the left and one inch on the |
| 17 | It looks like one of Mephistco 's junior-staff training sessions . |
| 18 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 19 | Brontosaurus , that looks like one . |
| 20 | He looks like one of the you know |
| 21 | character actually , mind you she does er , it looks like one of those programmes you know er , when you do n't want to be sitting in the front row , if she 's going |
| 22 | It looks like forty five . |
| 23 | It looks like forty five , and it 's almost certainly going to be forty five , and we could probably work out some reason why it would be forty five . |
| 24 | Looks like forty five minutes |
| 25 | In this case the total of the amount received by the local authority must be spent on the provision of good X. In the case shown , the budget line now looks like 154 and the conditional constraint forces the local authority to a corner solution 5 . |
| 26 | He looks like twenty three to me |
| 27 | Crisis invariably brings out the best in rural people and Baldersdale , when the occasion demanded , could act like one large family . |
| 28 | But although a woman psychologist may act like one of the boys , her sex never becomes irrelevant to her work . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , do n't behave like one , ’ was his father 's final word . |
| 30 | What if we had 've won like fourteen nil ? |