Example sentences of "[vb past] like that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've never heard it de described like that before . |
| 2 | Do n't need 'em scribbled like that . |
| 3 | He usually talked and behaved like that with women . |
| 4 | She always did choke off any men who showed signs of wanting to get close to her and she did n't know why she behaved like that . |
| 5 | ‘ If Leeds played like that more often they 'd be near the top , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Maybe he ate like that all the time . |
| 7 | Heaven , heaven , spelt like that , and so on , so the final n sound is missing . |
| 8 | If somebody does that to me they 're right up my arse and something came like that , or even just on a single carriage road , or anything I 'd just touch my brake slightly |
| 9 | I did this massive erm spit out the window and it suddenly exploded like that . |
| 10 | If her father got like that , then it might be all right . |
| 11 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 12 | Well it is , it is , yeah , it 's a , there 's a little of flesh but nothing like you know it was when his foot got like that do you see what I mean ? |
| 13 | got that , pen , er , got like that with your pen . |
| 14 | ‘ They lived like that for about two years . |
| 15 | Grey warmed into red like hot iron , then into pink , until the lower sky glowed like that above a blast-furnace at night . |
| 16 | I am , I always read like that |
| 17 | You wo n't get one shaped like that today . |
| 18 | old , oh is , liked his drink , always drunk , you know , when I remembered him , did n't see that much of him , but erm , how Colin never turned like that I never know |
| 19 | It just happened like that . ’ |
| 20 | Very often people are almost haunted by one particular experience and they think to themselves , ‘ Oh no , I could n't stand it if it happened like that again' . |
| 21 | Cos he wou his reaction time , understandably , cos he was n't expecting it , ce happened like that and hi his reaction time was too slow to compensate for the stupidity of the bloke coming the other way . |
| 22 | You could put it along side that erm , if you put it stuck like that , it 'll need staking , put it on the wall on the fence . |
| 23 | He , he , he leaped onto somebody in the goal mouth where the post was and i , he turned on a , off the other way in the post , and he landed like that and |
| 24 | Nobody talked like that all the time , of course , but you have to imagine what sort of an evening it was when all these things were said , what was really being talked about when we talked like that : |
| 25 | Nobody talked like that all the time , of course , but you have to imagine what sort of an evening it was when all these things were said , what was really being talked about when we talked like that : |
| 26 | But everybody talked like that . |
| 27 | I did n't know you could get stuff recorded like that , is it like specially adaptable , or is that normal walkman ? |
| 28 | ‘ Christine Daaé never sang like that before , ’ she said to Annie . |
| 29 | ‘ It is a great shame that we should provide such a superb facility and then see it treated like that . ’ |
| 30 | If I , defending a soundish majority , felt like that on occasions , how did the Prime Minister feel about the BBC 's performance during the election campaign , with his future and that of his party in the balance ? |