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Example sentences of "like a " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive .
2	I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . .
3	You know , add , add a , a say a piece of plastic , like the bar system they had on , on , you know like a coded system .
4	There was this view that the first world war would be rather like a re-run of some of these wars at the end of the nineteenth century .
5	You know like a Northumberland type newsletter from the three organizations .
6	Like a , a good example the , the the ninety three one , the ninety two one rather this year was a good example because there was erm a titanic battle in Old Harlow where the leader of the council Richard was up for re- election .
7	It 's a physical game and erm i it seems to me that er people should er develop their brain a little more and play games er which have more i interest for everyone , not just the people who like a good shout !
8	And some of the things that led up to it erm , yo you had like a form of spring cleaning yo you know
9	so what 's wrong with er it should n't be dealt with in a like a really serious way , it should be fun for everybody and what 's wrong with having a laugh about it as well ?
10	It 's not like a ministry test or anything like that as some of you are are well aware .
11	Li like a Ballard Test where you just put the little ring round the A B or C or D.
12	like a life-form it 's
13	Like a lot of old slang words from you know like a hun fifty or so back years ago are now proper words now .
14	Like a lot of old slang words from you know like a hun fifty or so back years ago are now proper words now .
15	Like a road worker .
16	Like a road worker , anything could n't they ?
17	A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet .
18	Like a truncheon ?
19	like a molecule .
20	like a glorified er filofax .
21	Like a third take away a quarter how did you do it ?
22	Like a vacuum cleaner should be five amp , a deep fat fryer should be thirteen amp and various
23	Like a doctor 's signature . .
24	It was a s er like a Sunday school Bible class .
25	They were very surprised , because usually they advertised for them , but they went up and asked the tailors if they wanted anyone , and then a dear old man , a er named Mr said he like a trouser finisher .
26	Near the boneyard , there was an old boneyard , it 's the road that runs through from Church , there were no houses there then , it 's all built on now , and there was a sl like a lane used to come from Church to Forrest .
27	The er the two rooms downstairs and a like a scullery affair at the back erm they were lit by a central gas with a mantle , gas mantle you know .
28	Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison .
29	But erm the paintwork was always , inside a house was always brown , like this is , as you can see it 's woodwork , it was it was a colour like a chocolaty brown .
30	Like a couple there they got robbed .