| basisword |
collocation |
significance |
relation |
examples sentences |
| like |
to like for instance |
695 |
V:prep:N |
Why should she like Giovanni Saracinesca , for instance ?
Is n't it like Hume , for instance ?
I like live topics , real issues -- Montana politics , for instance .
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| like |
to like of course |
483 |
V:prep:N |
Breakfast in your room at any time you like of course .
Ruth , you liked the part about Dickens , of course .
If the soup is liked thin , of course more water can be added .
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| like |
to like in spite |
308 |
V:prep:N |
Do you know , I like you in spite of your scorn and you like me , too .
Everyone seemed to like him in spite of his odd ways .
Also she liked the look of Mr. Sack , in spite of his being so obviously out of repair .
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| like |
to like to thank you |
300 |
V:prep:N |
But you do n't like me to thank you .
Now I 'd like to thank you again for your note of a few weeks ago .
STAR LETTER I 've been buying your magazine religiously for the last 18 months and would like to thank you for a great read .
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| like |
to like of thing |
262 |
V:prep:N |
Oh , I should like that , of all things !
And while I like my own way of doin ' things , I can get a likely man to help around the house .
Johnson liked him of all things in a year or two .
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| like |
to like of man |
238 |
V:prep:N |
The dress of the women , like that of the men , is double during winter .
What poet has ever said things like that of an old man , even of Methuselah ?
All creatures , though destitute of language like that of man , make themselves properly understood by their mates , their kindred , and their associates .
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| like |
to like of child |
234 |
V:prep:N |
His voice was frightened , bewildered , like that of a child .
He writes concerning the child born deaf : " His voice seems just like that of other children .
Again his voice had such a plaintive ring in it -- almost like that of a begging child .
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| like |
to like as pea |
199 |
V:prep:N |
And I found the same steamship , or else another as like her as two peas , lying at anchor not far from us .
" I suppose there is no vegetable so well liked as peas .
When he was advised from London that his lease had expired , and that the house , with some others as like it as two peas , was to be demolished , he was surprisingly distressed .
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| like |
to like above thing |
197 |
V:prep:N |
He liked that above all things in a woman .
Down stairs a long parlor and a dining room , with a basement kitchen which Bridget declared she liked above all things .
" " I should like it above all things !
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| like |
to like in life |
172 |
V:prep:N |
Do n't you like me in your life ?
Nobody ever did n't like me in my life , an ' I 'm seven .
Sit and write down what you like or love in life and then what you want to change .
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| like |
to like for sake |
142 |
V:prep:N |
Sacrifice means giving up something you like for the sake of other people .
You must try to like her for my sake .
You must try to like me for his sake .
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| like |
to like of animal |
141 |
V:prep:N |
This thy abode , O king , in the woods , like that of any wild animal , is what a man of weakness alone would submit to .
It was difficult to say whether her face was ugly or pretty ; the features were not amiss -- it was the expression , vague and dim like that of an animal , that puzzled Evelyn .
In his research in plant stimuli , he showed with the help of his newly invented crescograph that plants responded to various stimuli as if they had nervous systems like that of animals .
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| like |
to like of others |
126 |
V:prep:N |
It is said by some that , under pretence of the conspiracy to which I have alluded , he inflicted most severe tortures on the unfortunate chief ; but others maintain , that his throat was cut , like that of the others , without any form of investigation or delay .
At the first sight of the veil thrown over the heads of Am�lie and H�loise , and the agitation of both , she knew at once that the time of these two girls , like that of many others , had come .
The history of the settlement of Porto Seguro , like that of all the others , is stained with the most atrocious cruelties ; not such as soldiers in the heat of war commit , but cold calculated cruelties , exterminating men for the sake of growing canes , so waiting patiently for the fruit of crime .
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| like |
to like for example |
122 |
V:prep:N |
Politeness and truth are often mutually incompatible ( how do we answer the friend who asks whether we like his new hairstyle , for example ?
' 'Do you like , for example , to go to that French Pension ?
Bismarck wished upon aggressive tactics in foreign policy ; Hitler seemed to like surprises , for example the non-aggression pact with Poland in January 1934 .
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| like |
to like among others |
105 |
V:prep:N |
And you may like Edmund Gwenn and Jayne Meadows , among others , in minor roles .
Like some avant-garde filmmakers and like his contemporary , Hou Hsiao-hsien of Taiwan , among precious few others these days , Mr. Wong makes movies , still a young art , that create meaning through visual images , not just words .
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| like |
to like of woman |
104 |
V:prep:N |
And on the instant rose that terrible distressing scream of acute agony -- like that of a woman being dismembered .
The flame inside kindled , for the introduction of words , like that of women , is a privilege reserved for the great landowners .
It 's a horrid neighborhood , and I do n't like the idea , anyway , of a woman poking about among drains and cellars .
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