Example sentences of "[noun pl] like [adj] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been offered a sum that would buy my house twice over to pose for topless pictures like that and I 've turned every offer down flat . ’ |
| 2 | It was at times like this that I felt very small in the landscape . |
| 3 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 4 | The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down |
| 5 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 6 | Whereas not I will do things like that when I get older . |
| 7 | People tell me they 'll fade and that I should n't worry about them , or that I should n't bother about things like that when I 've got a baby , but I ca n't help it . |
| 8 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
| 9 | After that 's the spring term we 're into now , after Christmas erm health now there was there are packages and Catherine gave them to me on personal hygiene , things like that and I think Paul erm I know he would be keen he said , he 'd be keen to maybe put a package together with the help of all the form teachers plus myself and maybe do a bit into health , cos I mean you know it 's it 's |
| 10 | But I 'm afraid your reputation precedes you , you are renowned for rising to challenges like these and I feel sure that you can build on your previous successes and that together we can and probably will , do it . |
| 11 | ( Eg I got 2 pounds of a cop ticket for wimbledon — meaning I can see a match for 5.50 ) It only takes me going to 5 matches like this and I 've got good value for my initial investment . |
| 12 | I ca n't say I know many women like that but I find it interesting . ’ |
| 13 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |