Example sentences of "[conj] something like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CTP , or something like it , is thus crucial to the over-riding scientific project of describing the whole of reality in terms of a single set of ( physical ) mechanisms . |
| 2 | If there was anything like a Foreign Legion story , or something like Hitchcock 's Lifeboat , when the characters had to ration out the water , you 'd slowly turn up the heat . |
| 3 | He was Greek or something like that . |
| 4 | For Marx and Engels the existence of such a stage , or something like it , seemed essential in order to show fully the purely artificial and relative nature of both relations of production and private property in capitalism . |
| 5 | When they say directly to you it stinks or something like that , you get hurt inside of you . |
| 6 | ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh or something like that . ’ |
| 7 | Each generation contains two quarks and two leptons , of which one is an electron or something like it and the other a neutrino . |
| 8 | He had made the remark , or something like it , ‘ to the back of Admiral Poindexter ’ as they came out of a meeting with Reagan , and Reagan could not possibly have heard it . |
| 9 | ‘ He said Where are you guys going , have I missed it , or something like that , and we said … we were going out and have a bite of lunch . ’ |
| 10 | His dad might be afraid of you coining to get him , or something like that . ’ |
| 11 | Or something like that . |
| 12 | I had seen his name in the list of members of the Society , or something like that . |
| 13 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 14 | That is not to say that such an idea , or something like it , is not necessary in Italy . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen it coming — or something like it . |
| 16 | And suddenly we 'd all be in Amsterdam or Paris or something like somebody 's idea of America for the evening , or else it would still be our own dear city , but from very definitely another era , all striped Regency wallpaper and framed Angus McBean photographs of Vivien Leigh ; or another time there 'd be nothing but opera on the sound system for a whole week , there 'd be complaints of course but Madame would say , I 'm just trying to give you boys an education , and Gary at least would be very happy . |
| 17 | As well as often mis-clubbing him I might forget to put in a clean towel in the bag or something like that . |
| 18 | Whether connected logically or only chronologically , while this , or something like it , was the consensus in maintained schools , in universities there was an equal rejection of authority , here mostly among students themselves . |
| 19 | If there are a lot of people sitting in a room they 'll just sit there and they wo n't communicate , whereas two or three or four or five residents will communicate quite freely — they do n't feel inhibited or they do n't feel they 're interrupting somebody else 's television programme or radio or something like that . ’ |
| 20 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 21 | From little acorns grow mighty oaks — or something like that . |
| 22 | He is sure that a computational ‘ Samba school ’ , or something like it , will catch on somewhere . |
| 23 | If you could take them for a walk every day , from three to half-past four or something like that , I 'd be terribly grateful . |
| 24 | I still ca n't make up my mind what exactly to do about trying to get a university place or something like it , and I would feel better , I think , if we could talk about what you said when I visited you . |
| 25 | Or something like that . |
| 26 | They were two guys who had come up through Play School and Trumpton as well , I mean the commercials were fairly far out , Windy Miller 's head falls off when he eats the wrong bread or something like that . |
| 27 | I think something big could have been found — a cow pasture or something like that ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've tried many different mics and I often find that some of the more expensive condenser mics do n't sound as good as something like a good , straightforward Shure 57 or something like that — one of the cheaper dynamic mics . |
| 29 | Or something like that . |
| 30 | ‘ All I wanted was a signed photograph or something like that . ’ |