Example sentences of "[vb past] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heavens , if her heart beat like this at the sight of Luke 's stepmother , how would it react when she came face to face again with him ? she thought despairingly . |
| 2 | And you rub backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , and I ground like this for several hours every night , after I came home , for three months . |
| 3 | If you thought chess was a slow , perhaps even dull game , then you 've never seen it played like this . |
| 4 | I tried to leave him once when he got like this . |
| 5 | Dorcas got like this sometimes , she knew . |
| 6 | And her pumps are like that , I 'm , like that , and she got , she she got like this from there . |
| 7 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 8 | Had he seen her before she lived like this ? |
| 9 | Nobody lived like this on a hired hand 's hourly wage . |
| 10 | Only children ever danced like this , and when Kāli was older and married she 'd probably be ashamed to admit she even knew the movements . |
| 11 | Hofmeyr believed he knew why she acted like this . |
| 12 | He was always at a loss when people acted like this . |
| 13 | I was never much good at golf , and lacked patience and coordination ; but I once caught a pound trout on a Dunlop 65 golf-ball , and it happened like this . |
| 14 | It happened like this . |
| 15 | This is no guesswork ; we know from the records that it often happened like this . |
| 16 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 17 | He made fun of the pseudo-learned , bureaucratic speech of an inspector which began like this : |
| 18 | ‘ The dialogue between us began like this : ‘ Of course , you can begin your [ EDI ] project , but just keep sending the bills on paper as well ! ’ , ’ he said . |
| 19 | After she was dead , after we had said the prayers for her , her son , the young one , brought it to me , all newly furbished like this , and said it was her wish that I should have it , for a musician without an instrument is a warrior without weapon or armour . |
| 20 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 21 | They never talked like this . |
| 22 | He never usually talked like this , and I did n't like it . |
| 23 | The report went on : ‘ Operation Corea worked like this . |
| 24 | But while you 're here leave it covered like this and it 's a bit . |
| 25 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 26 | ‘ Can you think of another time when you have done this , or felt like this ? ’ |
| 27 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
| 28 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 29 | But I did n't trust myself , Pat , I thought I might harm her if she was with me while I felt like this . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I never realised you felt like this , Edward , ’ said Mrs Fitton petulantly . |