Example sentences of "[adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people are naturally like that though are n't they ? |
| 2 | She 's just , I mean you know how people do , I mean I do n't , she 's not doing it nastily I mean she 's just naturally like that I think and erm yeah I just thought she 's bound do , yeah she could get off with someone else . |
| 3 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 4 | Perhaps like Groucho Marx they have other views about exclusive clubs . |
| 5 | A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's . |
| 6 | But perhaps like Tony Prosser I might be allowed to conclude by citing the words of Edward Sparer when assessing the future after the failure of the US sequential test-case strategy : |
| 7 | If , on the other hand , we take a functional definition , perhaps like the one that Durkheim offers us , then we might call ideologies such as Marxism or Nationalism religions . |
| 8 | When Pistol appears , ‘ swelling like a turkey-cock ’ , perhaps like the old tragic actors who ‘ strutted and bellowed ’ , Fluellen beats his pate and forces him to eat the leek raw ( V.ii . ) . |
| 9 | The " ladder " is in fact a stairway ( perhaps like that of the ziggurat ) , since angels are going up and down it ( compare Jesus ' words to Nathanael in John 1:51 ) . |
| 10 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 11 | Its collective identity ( perhaps like that of English studies itself ) was structured into its range and mode of cultural production and enunciation . |
| 12 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 13 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 14 | Perhaps like Æthelred with Edward the Martyr , he attempted to disarm the opposition by making much of the saint himself . |
| 15 | Saying that imagination is essential for effective RE is perhaps like pubs advertising good food . |
| 16 | If one looks at that erm built area where we are now that looks perhaps like a heron on a perch , and looks immediately east of that , you have Strensall Common , most of which is a restricted area . |
| 17 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 18 | seen like a border in perhaps like a bit of pink and bit of grey on it and it 's like sort of scalloped edging |
| 19 | So what did John look like perhaps like a little Billy Bunter did n't he ? |
| 20 | Apparently like all numbers I used to only use B three and A one |
| 21 | Beautiful Ruby can detect a hint of misogyny from across the Atlantic and is not enough like Kenny Rogers ' Ruby , though Connie admires her unreservedly . |
| 22 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 23 | I looked enough like her in a general way , same colouring , same height . |
| 24 | The Visayan Warty pig is enough like the bearded pig to have been , for all these years , classified as one . |
| 25 | Only , what he gets is one of Charlie 's list of ringers , girls who look enough like the real thing to justify what he charges . |
| 26 | The man who spoke was enough like the priest in face and build to indicate their relationship , but , instead of the severe black habit and tonsured head which proclaimed the cleric to be of the Benedictine order , he was dressed in all the splendour of a prosperous baron . |
| 27 | Images and text flash onto your screen in synch with the music ( kinda like those Acid-House video-clips , only a bit simpler ) . |
| 28 | The Bowie thing was kinda like the spirit I did ‘ Walk Like An Egyptian ’ in . |
| 29 | Her decision was made on ‘ kinda like a mass exodus trip ’ from New York with her natural father , Amhadu Jah ( a Sierra Leonese percussionist who lives in Stockholm ) , and his family , to West Africa . |
| 30 | You know , kinda like a bigger version of me … ’ ) and what happens when you pull out but the condom stays in . |