Example sentences of "[noun sg] like [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 2 | With a reply like that it would have been a waste of time and effort to pursue the issue . |
| 3 | Yeah that 's right no reflection on you it 's just that I 'm thinking oh I ca I just ca n't see the time when I would ever drive through a gap like that that confidently that 's all . |
| 4 | And there was a single decker bus then , right , stopped in the middle of the road and there was an Escort and he 'd gone under the back right up to his windscreen like that the back |
| 5 | Stop so long in the pit bottom like that that is . |
| 6 | Me and Bernard , if me and Bernard want to go , she di now was she , foot like that they 're under the table , when you see his feet , his ! |
| 7 | I 'll never forget that I will never forget that , I had , I 'll told my mum like that we I told my mum we 'd be sleeping over and she said that was alright and she sort of looked at me as if to say mm , yes will Helena 's brother be there ? |
| 8 | He 's not been paying , but I suppose , with a business like that it 'd be V A T would n't it ? |
| 9 | It always makes me think because last time we saw an accident like that it was Penny you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | The only thing is in a place like that they 're more likely to be Tory . |
| 11 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 12 | Locally , I 've got Brackley down , Brackley Town pencilled in down here , now they 're playing Earthling Borough Diamonds in the United Counties Premier League ; now Earthling Borough Diamonds , they 've yet to win a match and with a name like that they do n't deserve to , I 'm just glad they 're not on my patch , although Elmensbury Pixons are apparently . |
| 13 | Je boy and stuff like that they all call them boy at the end of the name John boy an |
| 14 | but as far as the search thing and stuff like that it 's the same engineers we buy it from Bensons |
| 15 | Erm science at the moment we 've just covered erm things like angular momentum erm it just tends to be stuff like that we 've done simple harmonic motion er |
| 16 | And to have a choice like that it means that anybody who comes in here is not in competition with everybody else . |
| 17 | I think I would come down on voles really and they do actually dig a hole like that they go for erm small boulders and things like that in the garden or roots and they will send out clods as well cos they can uproot quite , quite a fair piece of er soil and of course they would eat berries as well , but again I 'm with Walter , I would like to see the end product . |
| 18 | By now they are probably nerves of iron because , you know , you have to co-exist with an army like that he has to really take it fairly easy because they can be quite rude and , you know , shove you around get whatever they want and very harmful methods . |
| 19 | What I would say this is a very very rare event in effect erm for this to happen erm and normally when the claims handlers do come into a situation like that it 's handled perfectly properly . |
| 20 | when they and they freeze your bloody bank account like that he I mean , like you say he it 's just daft you ca n't do that ! |
| 21 | And on a major project like that it might be sensible to bill that sort of thing into the fees at the at the outset . |
| 22 | And she said and she said thank you she said , Miss Anderson she said she ought to have more sense than come in a thing like that she said to the officers . |
| 23 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 24 | And I often say that young ladies who are looking over their shoulder like this , you 've got ta be careful of the neck because when they turn round and look over their shoulder you get creases in the neck , and there is a slight crease in the neck there but most of it has been disguised by covering it with her hair , so look out for that when you have a young lady , or anybody , looking over their shoulder , particularly with young ladies , when they look over their shoulder like that it does cause creases in the side of the neck which can be unsightly . |
| 25 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |
| 26 | But Chris I ca n't see them I ca n't see them making a fire like that that your heat 's gon na go all up the chimney , no way . |