Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [is] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salwar Kamiz is like a national dress of Punjab , worn both by the Muslims of Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs of East Punjab in India . |
| 2 | Photographing waves is like photographing women . |
| 3 | Of course , not all concern to record and preserve evidence is like this . |
| 4 | Understanding music is like understanding leering . |
| 5 | I do n't think Nigel is like that . |
| 6 | and you could see Jim 's like , his body shape |
| 7 | So adding mandolin is like the old string band concept — it 's just another bunch of intervals . |
| 8 | I ca n't rebuild without paying through the nose for the privilege , and even if I did build , getting rent is like getting blood from a stone ! ’ |
| 9 | The religious community sent its messengers on to the set and Burton obliged with such whoppers ( 'playing Marcellus is like playing Hamlet ’ ) that his reputation as an honest interviewee ought to have ended there and then . |
| 10 | ‘ Take the side stairs , I know McKay 's like the back of my hand , they lead straight up to 4 . ’ |
| 11 | The one that killed MacQuillan is like none of the others , neither is the one from the pond . |
| 12 | Remember that buying software is like buying the emperor 's new clothes . |
| 13 | Doing geology is like playing outdoors with enigmatic jig-saw puzzles : giant puzzles in the two dimensions of the Earth 's surface , the third dimension of a drill hole and the fourth dimension of time . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're saying space is like a wobbly jelly ? ’ |
| 15 | He said to himself , but I do think life 's like that . |
| 16 | I do n't think life is like that . |
| 17 | Assuming QRAM is like QEMM386 , you can most likely add an Include statement to your QRAM line in CONFIG.SYS , which forces it to use this area of RAM . |
| 18 | Indeed , learning science is like learning a catechism . |
| 19 | ‘ They think Frederico 's like Mr Aldington . |
| 20 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 21 | I think love is like , when somebody loves you , loves you for just being yourself |
| 22 | You ca n't help that , because I think life is like that . |
| 23 | Step paint is like a floor paint , but for use on concrete or stone steps . |
| 24 | ‘ Then we say ‘ skål ’ and drink , and the way we drink aquavit is like this — all at once ! ’ |