Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fans turned up to gigs in ridiculous anoraks , sold fanzines with names like Frothy Pop and pretended they were carefree 18-year-olds . |
| 2 | This is because they sing songs with titles like ‘ Love Girdle ’ , which , so the singer tells us , ‘ is about being in love with , well , a fat girl . ’ |
| 3 | To have towering , snow-spattered mountains everywhere you look , to gaze down into valleys , dotted — as it says in the brochures — with carved wooden chalets with roofs like lyres — to have all this and chocolate , too , is almost obscene . |
| 4 | A lot has happened since The Dennisons were chart contenders with songs like Walking the Dog . |
| 5 | Anyway who needs City fans with Reds like you ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In recent years this older element seems to have become more prominent ; they are often smartly dressed and travel to games by car or on scheduled train services away from police surveillance , organized in gangs with names like the Inter-City Firm , the Main Line Service Crew , or the Anti-Personnel Firm . |
| 8 | Tarot is even more complex with 78 cards , 22 of which are decorated with highly-symbolic pictures with names like The Hanging Man , the Pope , the Devil , the Lovers , Judgement , and an untitled image of death . |
| 9 | Mussolini harangued his people long and often , peppering his speeches with slogans like ‘ it is better to be a lion for a year than a sheep for a hundred years ’ . |
| 10 | A good cross section of rig support vessels came our way including tugs , survey ships , safety vessels , rig supply and small merchantmen with supplies like cement , chemicals and drilling mud . |
| 11 | Eastbourne is filled with nursing homes in Victorian mansions with names like ‘ The Gables ’ . ’ |
| 12 | In the USA Will Yolen coined the term ‘ Dropniks ’ for paras with names like ‘ Fearless Fosdick ’ and ‘ One-jump Waldo ’ as made by AKA Executive Secretary and ‘ Kite Tales ’ founder , Bob Ingraham . |
| 13 | Articles with titles like ‘ The New Opposition ’ and ‘ Power Returns to the Lords ’ began appearing in the newspapers . |
| 14 | Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell . |
| 15 | As the small group of less than one hundred people genuinely opposed to the showing of the film sang hymns and said the rosary , the group of luridly dressed and made up ‘ acolytes ’ loudly parodied their prayers with phrases like ‘ General Franco pray for us ’ and ‘ General Pinochet stand by us . ’ |
| 16 | Jesse Owens ' mastery of multiple athletic disciplines is well known and since then the sprint events have become virtually the property of American blacks with figures like Jim Hines in the 1960s , and hurdler Ed Moses in the 1980s , exerting unparalleled supremacy in their respective events . |
| 17 | You could do nail varnish commercials with hands like that , you really could . |
| 18 | I am using a range of paints produced in Australia by Art Spectrum which includes colours with names like Tasman blue , Flinders blue violet , Australian leaf green and Pilbora red , designed for use in the southern hemisphere . |
| 19 | While there 's nothing wrong with the principle or music of the CND ‘ Give Peace A Dance 3 ’ compilation , it 's a little worrying that tracks with titles like ‘ F— Off Mix ’ and ‘ Jihad ’ ( holy war , or am I wrong ? ) should have crept on to it . |
| 20 | Unlike the budget ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ series this is exclusively devoted to French repertoire and artists with names like d'Indy , Gounod , Fauré , Henry Rabaud , Debussy , Poulenc , Gabriel Pierné , Koechlin , and nearer our own time , Boulez and Messiaen . |
| 21 | In a 1975 introduction to his first novel , Jill , Larkin has revealed what his college life in war-time Oxford was like , and how he first met Amis there — an account somewhat amended by Amis in his contribution to Larkin at Sixty ( 1982 ) ; and collections of essays with titles like My Oxford ( 1977 ) and My Cambridge ( 1977 ) have assembled reminiscences of how mind and character were once forged round and about the tender age of twenty . |
| 22 | Some of this can be prevented by deliberately planting the joins with herbs like creeping thyme ( Thymus x serpyllum ) and pennyroyal ( Mentha pulegium ) which have matted stems lying flat on the ground . |
| 23 | And yes , Robyn , I can very well afford it , and more besides , but I 've worked damned hard for all that I 've achieved , so you can stop spoiling things with comments like that ! ’ |
| 24 | If it has , do you worry about what deal it is , as long as these three men are released , or do you say we should n't do deals with people like Saddam ? |
| 25 | He said that imports through European Community countries now account for half of cocaine seizures , and ‘ the practical reality is we can not afford to have open frontiers with countries like the Netherlands , because the consequence is that drugs in increasing numbers come into our countries . ’ |
| 26 | There are also problems with barriers like weirs . |
| 27 | It does n't look as though Steve 's going to get my job so we might start to have problems with things like your season ticket if we 're not careful . |
| 28 | I 'm having real problems with things like people asking me what accents people have got . |
| 29 | There are also problems with words like unicorn , roc , elf and dragon . |
| 30 | Even now his face lights up when he talks about minders with names like ‘ The Sulphate Strangler ’ . |