Example sentences of "[verb] something like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er they 're very good in fact , I mean even the erm if you look at say the result from Clerical Medical over ten years , erm fifteen thousand invested , er currently er returning something like forty three thousand over er the five the ten year term , so that 's not bad . |
| 2 | He had expected something like this , and had picked his spot to call Doyle very carefully . |
| 3 | Erm most of the furniture we choose either because we know it from inventories and lists to have been the kind of thing that was in middle class households in York , or in some cases like this , where we know the 's have actually owned something like this . |
| 4 | You want something like that . |
| 5 | So you want something like that , it 's a hundred and twenty long , millimetres seventy wide |
| 6 | Similarly , the UK has committed a disproportionate amount of expenditure to basic research ( absorbing something like 12 per cent of professional scientific manpower ) . |
| 7 | There 's nothing worse than keeping something like that to yourself It cracked me up terrible . |
| 8 | say something like that , oh no . |
| 9 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 10 | Tranter found something like six hundred of these fortified houses across Scotland , and attributes their presence to a combination of national character and links with France . |
| 11 | Rightly : arson attacks on mosques in Surrey and West Yorkshire suggest something like that may already have begun . |
| 12 | Hardy 's Wessex must have looked something like this . |
| 13 | ‘ How can you know something like this ? ’ |
| 14 | Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line . |
| 15 | Insignia has something like 100 engineers working on its line . |
| 16 | By the afternoon she 's tucking into three or four chocolate digestives and in the evening has something like baked beans on toast and the odd glass of wine . |
| 17 | You never forget something like that , ’ says Steven , a 23-year-old supervisor at Heathrow Airport . |
| 18 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 19 | it 's only about twenty twenty , thirty , forty pee something like that . |
| 20 | Indeed , the machine is so massive that a tokamak reactor would need something like 17 times as much material to produce the same power output as a pressurised-water reactor . |
| 21 | Indeed , we will need something like this if travel to other stars , let alone to other galaxies , is to be a practical proposition in the future . |
| 22 | It looks something like that . |
| 23 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 24 | The only other thing we want to find out , so we know it looks something like this . |
| 25 | Er we have a marketing group that goes around the country doing that and when they er sign the surgery up to do the er for us to do the product or pri print the product they leave a sheet that looks something like this . |
| 26 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 27 | The rest of Pincher 's Oxford ring looks something like this . |
| 28 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 29 | Indeed , Fleury felt quite like a sculptor as he worked away and he thought that it must feel something like this to carve an object of beauty out of the primeval rock . |
| 30 | earn something like two hundred quid a week to match what they 're getting now ! |