Example sentences of "[adv] [indef pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he 'd take on someone like Glenda Grower , who 's a much tougher customer . |
| 2 | He mused on how different his life would have been if he had met Viola when he was twenty-two , or rather someone like her , for she would not even have been a twinkle in her parents ' eyes at that stage . |
| 3 | Only 34 from Emburey gave the bowlers any sort of target to defend , although 147 was obviously nothing like enough . |
| 4 | Only someone like her would be able to receive it and only a figure like that could understand the pain of it and yet also discern , beneath the scum of the surface , the beauties and longings which eddied in a clearer or cleaner current within him . |
| 5 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 6 | He puts down something like eight guitar tracks using numerous WEM Copicats and what have you , and it 's only when you hear them all together that you realise he 's assembled this sound that he had in his head . |
| 7 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 8 | They all seemed to be down the after ballast compartment so I called down something like , " Come on lads , " I 've got my seizure , what about yours ? " |
| 9 | Because he said , he wrote down something like you would be quite happy , happy to , to have another religious order here , which is not at all what had been said . |
| 10 | It is very useful , if you 're trying to write down something like accent , say northern accent , would be , but would sound in words like cook , there 's no way of really doing that unless you use phonetic transcription . |
| 11 | Obviously something like a car could only be considered a bribe ; on the other hand a vacuum cleaner , say , may be too expensive to give away in bulk but could certainly be offered for comparative testing . |
| 12 | The diagnostic test needed is obviously something like the following : Given a situation where a phrase composed of adjective A and noun N can correctly apply to something perceived by the speaker , is it possible in principle to say the following truthfully : " This N is A " ? |
| 13 | Not that the national cause formed the only basis of the Party 's support and it seems that by 1937 or so something like 600 action committees had been formed to organize the workers in Cochinchina , principally in the Saigon — Cholon area . |
| 14 | So something like that . |
| 15 | Perhaps something like that happened today and you wonder how reconciliation can take place . |
| 16 | It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B. |
| 17 | To take a cuisinary analogy , threads of modifier bind the irregular network regions together something like eggs bind the flour in a cake mix . |
| 18 | fourthly er two sloppy love albums , approximately something like |
| 19 | It is thus something like the universal yellow which pervades a yellow object without requiring any particular arrangement of individual parts . |
| 20 | Not something like the Arnold Bros Furnishing Department ! ’ |
| 21 | Right , finally something like a carbon carbon just do a simple one they balance for the carbon skeleton these are true positional isomers , no other problem with them at all er erm ! |
| 22 | Five per cent more gave no specific figure — just something like ‘ the going rate ’ , or ‘ bank rate ’ . |
| 23 | And then y when you came into the stockyard with a Caw , Caw , li like a a crow saying it was just something like a crow 's nest . |
| 24 | That 's just something like you know , the the wax for er for s for sealing sealing wax it 's something like that . |
| 25 | Just something like cheap wallpaper here . |
| 26 | Just something like cheap . |
| 27 | He towered over everybody like a strapping Gallic chieftain . |
| 28 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 29 | Mum , that 's just not anything like my face . ’ |
| 30 | This being so , when a person says that he feels a pain in his foot , what he means is not anything like what he means when he says he feels a pin in his foot . |