Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | No side has won successive grand slams since Wavell Wakefield 's England of 1924 , though it is worth recalling that what has become known as the Irish Problem deprived Wales in Barry John 's farewell year , 1972 ; they won handsomely against England , France and Scotland but like the Scots dared not venture to Dublin at the height of The Troubles . |
| 2 | Kenneth Williams was a marvellous prop for Kenneth Horne and like all good props , sometimes it seemed as if the whole thing would collapse without him . |
| 3 | Like Swainson and like Forbes , Owen saw the animal kingdom as exemplifying the ideas of its Creator , through a pattern of types and archetypes . |
| 4 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 5 | Sadness intensifies the perceptions of the eyes so that the inner eyes see a new form of beauty like Rimbaud or like the deaf Beethoven or the blind Homer and Milton . |
| 6 | During His ministry the Lord Jesus often referred to events recorded in the Old Testament such as the story of Jonah , the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and like Peter to the flood . |
| 7 | It had , however , served to draw attention to the acute housing problem in Derry and like the HCL in Dungannon , it gave an example of effective protest and direct action . |
| 8 | In that , he was like Wallace and like Norman Lockyer , the first editor of Nature ; but he was unlike them in that he went on to become President of the Royal Society , at the time of the First World War . |
| 9 | Nuln is the second biggest city of the Reikland and like Altdorf it sits astride the great river Reik . |
| 10 | It belongs to the family Cyprinidae and like all species of this type of fish it is equipped with pharyngeal or throat teeth , and has no adipose fin . |
| 11 | Speedie , a one-time Quaker with Darlington and like the two managers a former number seven at Anfield , headed his second on the hour and side-footed his third after a mix up between Wright and Liam O'Brien with fifteen minutes left . |
| 12 | Captain R.K. Montgomery RE — an old friend of Bill Pritchard and like him a coordinator of demolition squads in the raid — moved them further away . |
| 13 | It 's a smart move which leads him out onto a limb of high-flown verbiage , as in the charmingly titled Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things : ‘ I 'm electric with the snap and crackle of creation/ I 'm mixing up the mud with the spit/ So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus/ Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky/ Like crack crazed kings ’ . |