Example sentences of "[art] thing like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm some of it is , but I mean , some of the things like that washing machine from about |
| 2 | I do n't , I do n't know anybody that I , I 've I mean I 've never seen a group , I mean you see it on films every now and then you know , a group of people that really , really spark one another off , like in The Big Chill and all the things like that but erm I 've never seen it before . |
| 3 | No , I 'm I was suggesting that the odds are against them and that men have used a type of emotional blackmail against women , which has always been very successful , where they 're actually forced , because there are no things like cheap or free workplace nurseries , they are forced to be the primary carers . |
| 4 | Why should he keep a thing like that to himself ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Why would I do a thing like that ? ’ she asked . |
| 6 | Now why would anybody want to do a thing like that ? |
| 7 | ‘ You 've never done a thing like that before , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Ari tried to wriggle away from him a little , somehow annoyed he could say a thing like that at a time like this . |
| 9 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 10 | You could n't keep a thing like that hidden for very long , not in this damn town . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’ |
| 12 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 13 | I should stroke his head , but how can I do a thing like that ? |
| 14 | ‘ The last man to take a thing like that well , ’ E.M . |
| 15 | She would n't like to read a thing like that . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How else would she know it 's a thing like that ? ’ retorted Hester , unabashed . |
| 17 | Gerry was dead , because no seaman , not even a little toerag like Richie Daly , would lie about a thing like that . |
| 18 | ‘ Imagine the Government doin' a thing like that , eh ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How dare you suggest a thing like that ! |
| 20 | How could anybody get over a thing like that ? |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I never did , ’ said Mrs Beavis in astonishment , ‘ I ca n't 'ardly credit Sergeant Joe doin' a thing like that . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't advise you on a thing like that . |
| 23 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't believe he done it , I do n't believe he could do a thing like that and her with a babby inside of her . ’ |
| 25 | You know the way it is with a thing like that . |
| 26 | It would have been no secret to you that Connors of the Globe would tip me off if he found out a thing like that . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't believe Our Lord would do a thing like that . |
| 28 | ‘ This space is too small for a thing like that , you 'd kill us all ! ’ |
| 29 | A thing like that , it could change the course of events . |
| 30 | They might want him or her to have a key , you know and er and just ran the keys up on a thing like that , you know what I mean , they was never out of the person 's possession . |