Example sentences of "[noun] thing like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 2 | He has in mind things like another increase in the student/staff ratio . |
| 3 | Their potatoes and their vegetables and well fruits and apples , plums things like that is n't it . |
| 4 | yes , you , you 'll find some world holiday dates , and so on , those can go in the storage binder and , unless you 're likely to , to want to know when the Emperor 's birthday is , and plan things like that . |
| 5 | I do n't like people doing things like that . |
| 6 | That , that was the start , the start of it , I think how it actually commenced so they used to get in each other 's houses and play a few games of cards dominoes and draughts things like that , and they , they took over they must have actually bought the houses before they built the club . |
| 7 | He said that during the war things like that happened . ) |
| 8 | Non verbal that 's why I know you think about body language but think of all the times things like that happen where the body language speaks it you know . |
| 9 | Yeah when we 've had a look at fractions a bit erm we 'll play with those and we 'll find out things like what 's half of a quarter things like that . |
| 10 | Believe it or not — one feeble attempt by shoe manufacturers to cash in was a ridiculous boot thing like this . |
| 11 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 12 | baby things like that . |
| 13 | It 's erm , even back to school , I mean boys wear blue , girls wear pink , if you see a boy with pink i , you know he 's classed as cissy , er , cissy or wimp things like that . |
| 14 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 15 | Erm , I can tell you what the other to look at the personality things like that |
| 16 | You do n't ask Vern things like that . |
| 17 | I du n no , as you say to see the culture things like that but it 's a bit difficult to put niggers down in their own country well what 's that then , is that , is that just the ferry between an island or something |
| 18 | Reciprocating wheel , cams. things like that . |
| 19 | Now some of the inputs been prepared production of crackers , the production of sewing material things like that . |
| 20 | doing dialect there 's still a things like the wireless and the weather things like that sometimes give it a personality as a . |
| 21 | We 're not into a set thing like Sly And The Family Stone or James Brown . |