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Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [adj] [noun pl] like " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Occasionally swear words are interspersed with functional words like it 's and mine but i it tends to be very heavily orientated towards the the less nice side of the language up there .
2	He 's been seen with glamorous celebrities like Princess Stephanie and East German ice-skater Katarina Witt , but Boris Becker always seems happiest with ex-waitress Karen Schulz .
3	Glasses are a girl 's best friend — particularly when they 're hung with mock rocks like thee .
4	‘ What chance have I got with little cows like you shortchanging me ? ’
5	The ventral interradial areas are covered with small plates armed with simple rods like those of the dorsal surface .
6	Compared with pre-war journals like John O'London 's Weekly , this is a highly anti-insular and anti-cosy world .
7	Compared with poetic devices like metaphor , they are probably rather mundane .
8	The ventral interradial area are also coated with multipointed spinelets like those of the dorsal surface .
9	I 've dealt with many men like him over the years and I 'm under no illusions as to his character .
10	He wore a patched gallibaya and the soles of his feet were split with deep cracks like dried mud .
11	Predator satiation , particularly of primates and some squirrels , which seem to eat almost anything , was notably associated with some trees like many Euphorbiaceae .
12	Pinned to the wall below the painting is her collection of turn-of-the-century kettle holders , embroidered with timely messages like ‘ Mind It Boils ’ and ‘ Forget Me Not ’ .
13	‘ We talked in the living-room which merges into a conservatory choked with potted plants like a burgeoning rain forest .
14	The ventral interradial areas are covered with large plates like those of the dorsal surface , spinelets may be present .
15	The ventral interradial areas are covered with large plates like those of the dorsal surface , they may also be armed with granule-like spinelets .
16	Linguistic features ( for instance , how often speakers drop their g's in words like playing ) are correlated with social characteristics like age , ethnicity , gender and class .