Example sentences of "like [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not like that Lydia , ’ said Betty . |
| 2 | In reading line A we may well ask , What , precisely , are the heavens like that God stretches out ? |
| 3 | He had an old brew house there and on the side of the sink there I built a good staunch bench about like that square , put a vice on it you know . |
| 4 | Or else she would look like that girl in the adverts . |
| 5 | You 're like that girl Flavia : you think I do n't know what goes on around me , but I 've got my eyes open . ’ |
| 6 | that 's what I was thinking about like that girl you know , typical , about that car |
| 7 | You mean like that dabble it on ? |
| 8 | nice number that , er nice number , you see like that song , like you 've choose |
| 9 | That 's like that song where they say me and my wee scabby dog in n it ? |
| 10 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 11 | It 's funny how names like that stick when , you know , it 's |
| 12 | He wanted to know what the women 's commune was like that Roberta and Faye frequented . |
| 13 | A dried-up old spinster like that talking of love ! |
| 14 | They were n't like that owd motor-car : you come home and switch the motor off ; and you do n't see that until tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | She [ Ivy ] said to him : ‘ Mr Cary , there comes a moment when my book sets , like that jam in that jar . ’ |
| 16 | Just like that Joyce |
| 17 | If I pull my jumper off like that be like that dresses . |
| 18 | ‘ If I went behind his back like that Ross would be absolutely furious ! ’ she added with a nervous gurgle of laughter . |
| 19 | I was driving along t you know t telling David that all the time that that people are on the roads practising how to drive and becoming better drivers there are people like that wally there crossing the roa Oh , it 's Simon . |
| 20 | Er things like that help if you 're not sure , you 're thinking oh no , especially in an exam |
| 21 | In my day we had great stars like that Peter Barnes , then there was Brian Greenhoff , he were grand . |
| 22 | if it goes anything like that plan , I think that that carport looks hideous , actually . |
| 23 | No that , I I just walk like that Sir , they 're suede , they 're a special way of walking . |
| 24 | Most unpleasant having something like that hanging over your head . |
| 25 | You 're very unpleasant when you 're like that boy ! |
| 26 | Not like that she-wolf in Gloucester . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | His voice did n't sound at all unfriendly though , not like that tone he uses when he catches me up on the table eating the butter . |
| 29 | I 've now made single handedly cos I 'm like that single handed ! |
| 30 | It was another fine winter day , just like that Sunday nearly six weeks earlier : the day before Arabella died . |