Example sentences of "[pers pn] [indef pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Government is reliably said to have invested large sums from its military budget on research in which impulses from computers ( which might give you something like the binary number level of the program ) were detected at a distance and the task was to see whether the highest level of program ( expressing what the real purpose of the program was ) could be reliably inferred . |
| 2 | Of test questions Er yeah , these are these are tricky , where they give you something like They give you a melting point and a boiling point whether it conducts electricity and a gas is given off which turns limewater milky . |
| 3 | This method gives you something like a template for a graph , which you can use time and time again . |
| 4 | To make the film would cost you something like a hundred and twenty thousand pounds . |
| 5 | If I give you something like , now can you remember how to do that sort of thing ? |
| 6 | Well how would you no forget all about differentiation now , if I gave you something like that , three X squared plus four X minus five equals zero . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't possibly tell you something like beware of crossing streets tomorrow because if you do there 'll be an accident . |
| 8 | I think you mentioned on the telephone now one per day gives you something like seven hundred and fifty pounds per week . |
| 9 | Well if I gave you something like this erm Y equals X times X squared plus two . |
| 10 | But sometimes they give you something like this and you say , Oh it 's one times Especially |
| 11 | give you something like this , they might say erm , say , Four X squared minus one times two X squared plus three . |
| 12 | Erm so if I gave you something like that to differentiate |
| 13 | You should have bought an American dog with you something like a |
| 14 | And not in a million quintillion millenia is she anything like me . ’ |
| 15 | How do you expect me to go to sleep after you 've told me something like that ? |
| 16 | Erm I , I feel as if you 're gon na to say to me something like erm could do better , |
| 17 | Somebody told me something like he was ‘ of the City ’ but not ‘ in it ’ . |
| 18 | Yeah I know I know it 's got a lot of milk in and I did ask for it for you , but she still give me one like that . |
| 19 | Once the Greeks grow familiar with the alternation of democratically elected governments , and once their economy is giving them something like a proper European standard of life , they will behave like proper Europeans . |
| 20 | Yet if she had she would have imagined for him someone like Mrs Pascoe , someone who gave an instant impression of being a first-class housekeeper ( the house was immaculate , everything well chosen and highly polished ) and combined energetic work for her local community with a modest reticence about herself . |
| 21 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 22 | He will zoom up to her , stop with a screech of brakes , and ask her something like when lighting-up time is . |
| 23 | Who could hate her so much that they would send her something like that ? |
| 24 | Who could have sent her something like that ? |
| 25 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 26 | Better yet , give him something like a façade , with doors and windows behind which there operates a mystery which the reader-accomplice will have to look for … |
| 27 | Bobby Charlton said of him something like , ’ People ask you how good was he ? and then when you tell them they do n't believe you , but yes , he was that good . ’ |
| 28 | See my dad likes videos and things like that but he wa he , I know he likes aftershave , he likes that Old Spice and that so I thought well I 'll get him something like that or I thought I sort of saw cos I 'm going shopping Saturday , I 'm trying to get it all Saturday if I can . |
| 29 | You could n't possibly ask her anything like that . |
| 30 | it was only the stress of the job that kept him anything like upright at all . |