Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] like " in BNC.

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1 I never brushed it or nothing like I do to Marie 's .
2 They ai n't got no lights on or nothing like that , but they 're real nice all the same .
3 There ai n't no music playing or nothing like there usually is , just the sound of people talking and the clunking of the fruit machine .
4 " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that .
5 There was no dole or nothing like this they had .
6 But you would n't have er you would n't have easy chairs or nothing like that .
7 Can you not stick a band on pretty soon or nothing like that ?
8 No , because right has a tummy bug this week and she did n't phone or nothing like to say I do n't wan na phone Margaret she do n't wan na know so I do n't know why you 're bugging her for !
9 Without her , or someone like her , the story would have been completely different .
10 She had seen her sister ancient and dead on a stretcher this morning , probably because of Clive or someone like him .
11 But say it 's your mother , or your probation officer or someone like that , it 's all right .
12 Or someone like her , ’ Belinda stressed , not wanting him to guess that she had noticed the brunette 's special interest in him .
13 Suppose Argol , or someone like him , suddenly leaped out of someone 's driveway to give me a taste of his galaxy 's latest in combat weapons .
14 His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them .
15 Deane and Rodders up front again I du n no I 'd like to see him try for a goal poacher or someone like Ferds .
16 What about James or someone like that ?
17 Er well I mean I want to find from A T S or someone like that how much their cars would cost
18 ‘ Back to the '20s or '30s or somethin' like that .
19 You do n't get a second chance where someone like Julius is concerned .
20 Normally I 'd wan na come off when I 'd run outa money and I 'd got nothing else to do 'cos I 've never gone robbin' or anythin' like that .
21 Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder .
22 So when the proverbial shit had hit the fan in Whitehall , Connors , or somebody like him , would have drawled at the emergency conference .
23 All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that .
24 Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him .
25 basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next
26 I mean , I 've got figures here produced by Shelter , probably some sort of pinko left Labour party front like the L G I O or somebody like that .
27 But the leaders are nearly always someone like a Director of Nursing or somebody like that , who has no ward experience
28 Yeah see the or somebody like that or I yeah
29 do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference .
30 Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know .
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