Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [indef pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody knows — including I think members of the Council from all three political groups — everybody knows that we 've got increasing numbers of elderly people , we 've got increasing numbers of disabled and mentally ill people in the community , and if there is one service , and I know there are others , but if there is one service that needs constant new growth it 's Social Services , and that 's not me empire building or anything like that , that 's me simply saying in straight managerial terms there are forces which require us to increase the Social Services budget . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you ever been an alcoholic or anything like that ? ’ |
| 3 | They 've all got a vision about their listeners , their viewers , their readers and so forth , and when they pick something , a press release , or when they hear a story or something like that , their mind 's going click click click ‘ How can I use this in a way that I can turn it into a form which is usable for my people ? ’ in a sense . |
| 4 | some local paper or even , might of been Daily Express or summat like that you see |
| 5 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 6 | I think something big could have been found — a cow pasture or something like that ! ’ |
| 7 | See any crack in the drain or anything like that , all of their burrowing and they 'll get through it ! |
| 8 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 9 | And in the Football Post er cos everybody used to have the Football Post then , not like now , and so everybody knew what was in it and er there was like a Who and Why column in the Football Post and one of these was , Who will stop County now , you see because they was at top of the second division or something like that , and the team that was next to them was City in them days you see . |
| 10 | For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead . |
| 11 | You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles . |
| 12 | It 's not like the washing powder or something like that , they reckon you said it 's just you know |
| 13 | They 'd been making er some mixed powder , fenugreek or something like that you see ? |
| 14 | And I think what we should have is a fifth person which is an outstanding sales award or something like that which covers all regions cos in Europe you woul you would n't vote for any of them would you ? |
| 15 | Silly old cow or something like that some people remember it . |
| 16 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 17 | About every hour or something like that . |
| 18 | She said she would put on the computer or something like |
| 19 | we just go to out here and , or the park or something like that |
| 20 | Erm , yeah , sh I know you 'll be thinking about sending her to prison today but if you could think of anything else that erm , I do n't know , a suspended sentence or something like that , then obviously she 'd , she 'd be really grateful for that , would n't you , Mrs , yeah erm , er , Mrs White is there anything else you want me to say ? |
| 21 | At — we have an arrangement where students can choose flexibly any weighting from 50:50 to ⅔ : ⅓ in composing their degree programme and most choose the latter weighting or something like it . |
| 22 | Have the rules changed over the years , for example have the age groups or allowing girls to take part or anything like that ? |
| 23 | and this chappie had a double hip replacement operation , it 's been on the television here and er , he said they started off dancing with Sammy Davis , you know , er what 's it called , Tip Tap Toe or something like that , they , they act Sammy Davis and his , and his parents and then these two chaps I , I mean they had n't made it big time |
| 24 | We could send them off to a university or something like that so the . |
| 25 | a friend 's experience or anything like that ? |
| 26 | That , that 's a rational law , okay , it 's nothing to do with a taboo , there 's not some strange supernatural principle which says , in Savoy Street you drive on the other side , and if you do n't you 'll be struck down with a fever or ill luck or something like that . |
| 27 | No we do n't I we do n't I my my faith we do n't celebrate the devil , we do n't cross our fingers , we do n't say er you know anything about luck or anything like that b |
| 28 | Well we used to er well really we never used to do anything kind of perhaps er go out and play or anything like that . |
| 29 | long time to remember what 's going to happen in three months ' time , but if it 's something related to an event like Christmas or Easter or something like that , a lot of , a lot of press people are always thinking ‘ What the hell am I going to do that 's different for Christmas or Easter or so forth , ’ so if you do a signal , lay on a special event related to a , a time , in other words a sort of custom , a calendar custom-type event , they 're going to appreciate that notice because they may do some forward planning which would actually help them in that respect . |
| 30 | Was there anything like erm redundancy money or anything like that payed at that time when the place |