Example sentences of "with [n mass] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is popular with summer bathers , but at other times the water is cold and the fine sand dotted with jellyfish like complicated hot-weather dishes : semi-transparent yellow-streaked boeuf en daube and deep magenta grape aspic . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is just a question of sitting down with people like Roy Evans and taking it from there . ’ |
| 4 | If he ca n't cope with me , how is he going to cope with people like Boris Yeltsin if he is elected ? ’ |
| 5 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 6 | ‘ Nowadays I do some of my training with people like Tim Hutchings , Gary Staines and Steve Harris . |
| 7 | ‘ I got the work through the musical director Dave Clayton , who has done a lot of work with people like George Michael . |
| 8 | We 're starting a writers ’ workshop this month with people like Neil Gaiman getting involved . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He could n't have lived with people like Billy Bremner , Johnny Giles , Norman Hunter , Dave Mackay , Ron Harris and Nobby Stiles . |
| 10 | I always remember him being asked why a chap with his responsibility spent his evenings with people like Jill St John and he replied , ‘ Well , if you spent the whole day with Indira Ghandi you do n't want to spend the night with Golda Meir … . ’ |
| 11 | Never in my wildest dreams had I ever thought I would even go to Hollywood , let alone work with people like him . |
| 12 | Dealing with people like Mr Coleby was a man 's job . |
| 13 | Along with people like Tolman and Crespi he showed the inadequacy of the S-R model without really replacing it with anything of use to the psychobiologist . |
| 14 | Who left school at 15 and became a famous model , and jetted around with people like Nureyev and Patrick Lichfield ? |
| 15 | That 's the trouble with people like Ollie , I think : when they come off they 're really good company , and when they do n't they miss by a mile . |
| 16 | because that 's the other problem with people like me is , I 'm all over the place all the time . |
| 17 | and she seemed fairly confident about her questionnaire in developing the right question in questionnaire , but I suppose that would be in conjunction with people like you |
| 18 | ’ — Of mixing with people like me ? ’ |
| 19 | The belated impact of Saussurian semiotics , Althusserian and other neo- and post-marxist theories of ideology , Lacanian psychoanalysis and its account of subjectivity and identity , the tradition of British cultural studies associated with people like Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall , various strands of feminism , Foucault 's concern with discourse and power : these are just some of the developments that today make it impossible to think of culture as a finite and self-sufficient body of contents , customs and traditions . |
| 20 | One was simply not on friendly terms with people like gardeners and their offspring . |
| 21 | ‘ We have people here , ’ Irina said , in French this time , ‘ who know how to deal with people like you . ’ |
| 22 | It 's extremely improbable that someone who is working with people like Bill Mishkin and Bill Saltman should be having an affair with someone like Rose . |
| 23 | The trouble with people like Dr Wyn was that there was really no answer to the jaw-dropping remarks they made . |
| 24 | PTAs up and down the country are stuffed with people like her . |
| 25 | Now that we have an escaped political prisoner on the loose , everybody is fighting shy of having anything to do with people like you . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , you can never tell with people like that . ’ |
| 27 | We do n't try to keep up with people like that . |
| 28 | ‘ He used to play head-tennis with people like Ray Wilkins and Gordon McQueen which is n't a bad grounding , is it ? ’ laughs Harry . |
| 29 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 30 | Now that in itself is not unique , what is unique is because of our relationships with people like Microsoft who actually O E M and resell and O S Two , then many many of the P C and desktop Four G M and tools vendors vendors have aligned themselves behind that A P I . |