Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tickets for the concert evening at the King 's Hall will be going on sale soon and we can expect them to go like hot cakes . |
| 2 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 3 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 4 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 5 | A pattern is forming — a str–tegy , her strategy — her acting , me reacting like a frog 's hind leg ! |
| 6 | He made me laugh like no one on earth has ever made me laugh . |
| 7 | These early pension schemes were all rewards for loyalty to a narrow group of white collar staff , whose salaries were insufficient to allow them to retire like more prosperous middle-class professionals . |
| 8 | I just do n't understand where father got them or why he kept them hidden like this . ’ |
| 9 | You know because we often talk to artists and we ask you know how it happened and and most of them say like topsy it just grew er that that there 's no planned career but with you with the tours er set and the album set it it seems to be more of a controlled career with you two . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you think of me appearing like that in front of the men ? ’ she asked in her slow , earnest , Germanic accent , gazing at Jane with steady blue eyes . |
| 11 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 12 | For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime . |
| 13 | Why are you making me wait like this ? |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 16 | I mean like royalty do , pretend to be married but do their own thing on the quiet . |
| 17 | I mean like Ed she had been murdered . |
| 18 | they did n't know I mean like first newsletter we 've had in ages . |
| 19 | I mean like a ballpark figure . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , I think if they were more honest and open , I mean like parents and schools and stuff , it would n't be so difficult for people to talk about it , and there would n't be as many , the jokes about it . |
| 21 | Well they might not because there are people I mean like me students who might not . |
| 22 | When you 're working and you 're busy and you 've got to do it I mean like this last week because of playing golf mainly , and putting weedkiller down , the grass is this high and |
| 23 | There is the er the other way of looking at this that you can either change the er sort of C O balance or you can give her some clerical time , because if she can identify clerical work I mean like Diane |
| 24 | ‘ I mean like stick cigarettes in your face until you talk . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , I mean like ‘ life 's a great big virtual-reality computer game being played with real people ’ . ’ |
| 26 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 27 | I mean like John 's out just about |
| 28 | I mean like office blocks like that over there all that that crap |
| 29 | I I mean like like the the er competitions cereal competitions , erm invent a slogan for , something like that . |
| 30 | I mean like Australia |