Example sentences of "people like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peoples like the Maya and Aztecs were organized on a hierarchical basis and supported civilizations altogether more developed than those prevailing at the time in North America . |
| 2 | Organisations like ACET need this support to enable people like myself to retain maximum control and continue to live at home as independently as we can . |
| 3 | Organisations like ACET need this kind of support to enable people like myself to retain maximum control and continue to live at home . |
| 4 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 5 | On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ . |
| 6 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
| 7 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
| 8 | Those sort of jobs just do n't exist for people like you and me . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't like being a burden on people like this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Look , ’ she then began by saying , ‘ there must be some sort of council accommodation for people like you . |
| 11 | I mean people like you , whoever you are , wherever you 're from and whatever you do . |
| 12 | Funnily enough it 's not the people like me who usually do get the boot in academic life , it 's the people with real talent who generally have a hard time . ’ |
| 13 | You get people like Belson who was allowed to do a survey research of public opinion . |
| 14 | For , she thinks , if privileged spoiled people like her ca n't get off their backsides and put their money where their mouth is … |
| 15 | People like Niall , like Michael Morrissey , who do know what it is like to be poor and shat on , the bottom of the whole U.K. heap , they know I 'm nothing when they set eyes on me . |
| 16 | CAMRA needs more people like her . |
| 17 | People like Jane are left to pay the price . |
| 18 | This seems to be the view of Lord Donaldson , that truly sagacious Master of the Rolls , who has just called for a new corps of paralegal ‘ civil justices ’ to get people like me off the hook . |
| 19 | ‘ Steve Cram and people like him should be there . |
| 20 | Dr Colophon , consultant psychologist to the Press Council , examines why so many consultant psychologists seem impelled to spill the dirt on people like Prince Charles , Mrs Thatcher and Ian Botham . |
| 21 | It is not the image which people like you want to know about , but it is true . |
| 22 | Working-class ministerial colleagues see socialism as ‘ people like them getting to the top , not actually changing the top , just getting there ’ . |
| 23 | People like Jeff Whitefoot who is so experienced should be trying to encourage young players like myself but this makes me feel like packing it in . ’ |
| 24 | There 's a role for people like that . |
| 25 | Quelle horreur : many 's the time I have found myself torn between throwing people like him out and putting up with them for the sake of the cash-till . |
| 26 | ‘ It would be hard on people like Peter Winterbottom but they have taken a decision to go to London and there 's no room any more for sentiment . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My difficulty is that I have n't spent 40 years as an umpire or whatever , and there is a tension between people like that and those like me . |
| 28 | But then I thought this might not be understood by many people , and also , by the time it got to the Augean Bulls and the Birds of Stymphalus , it would be a little recondite for people like Terry Coleman . ’ |
| 29 | She has n't stopped complaining since that shopping centre went up , but , like , with people like that all you can do is listen and sympathize . |
| 30 | We are always looking for the revolutions in music , people like Prince or Jimi Hendrix . |