Example sentences of "[conj] somebody like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various witnesses , including shoppers and tramdrivers , gave varying accounts of witnessing Drew or somebody like him at the appropriate time of the murder . |
| 2 | So when the proverbial shit had hit the fan in Whitehall , Connors , or somebody like him , would have drawled at the emergency conference . |
| 3 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 4 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 5 | basically the criteria is what is the most , how is it most sensibly dealt with , right , cos you do n't want a or somebody like that rushing all over the bleeding country going to Aberdeen one minute , Edinburgh the next |
| 6 | I mean , I 've got figures here produced by Shelter , probably some sort of pinko left Labour party front like the L G I O or somebody like that . |
| 7 | But the leaders are nearly always someone like a Director of Nursing or somebody like that , who has no ward experience |
| 8 | Yeah see the or somebody like that or I yeah |
| 9 | do n't you go comma say your teacher , or somebody like that , so it just shows that it 's not a reference . |
| 10 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 11 | I think it 's interesting the way that somebody like Muriel Gray tried to break with that when she co-presented The Tube with Jools Holland and Paula Yates . |
| 12 | ‘ I can well imagine that somebody like you would strike a woman . |
| 13 | It seemed to me that somebody like Michael Crawford would be an absolute past master at giving a riveting performance by appearing to do almost nothing . |
| 14 | it is what I 've always thought for a long time that somebody like Brian if he 's not if he 's not showing at our fish at our show , even as an A class judge , I , I fail to see why he ca n't judge at our show it 's , he goes to Skelm and , and judges there and our fish will be there or strange really when we 're struggling for judges that , that we do n't do these things . |
| 15 | You might have been up there playing and somebody like me or a young talent scout from a record company . |
| 16 | but somebody like our John who 's |
| 17 | obviously cos of what happened at Lucy 's party I , I on that situation but okay then , let's not take James but somebody like that |