Example sentences of "[vb base] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 2 | ‘ A place like this ? ’ |
| 3 | Put like this it seems extremely cold and unfeeling , but it must be said that if we were all to make our own arrangements without any order or form then chaos would quickly result . |
| 4 | Put like this , the answer is likely to be ‘ no ’ . |
| 5 | well if I act like this I 'm no , nobody 's gon na come up and |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 8 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 9 | I mean like this . |
| 10 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 11 | Well , I do n't believe , they are after sound and the difference , you know , I mean you sit like this can you still hear me ? |
| 12 | They remain like this motionless with the woman stemming any premature ejaculatory urges by squeeze control , if the need arises . |
| 13 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 14 | These explanations often sound like this : |
| 15 | There are no English words which begin like this . |
| 16 | If you begin like this : In this essay , I will argue that Henry James 's representations and frequent treatment of women through metaphors as art objects are deeply problematic . |
| 17 | However , the days of moulding artists ( ’ wear that , play this , look like this , get your hair cut like that' ) have gone . |
| 18 | Dot wondered , did Baby now look like this doll 's melted companion , face and hands gone , only his white clothes left ? |
| 19 | ‘ No , I always look like this . |
| 20 | It is rare that an ordinary man like myself encounters women who look like this , other than on celluloid . |
| 21 | ‘ She 'll start off , ’ he said at the time , ‘ with an appealing look like this [ his eyes open wide and his jaw drops ] and you can see her thinking : ‘ No , I did that yesterday . |
| 22 | Labours sums look like this : The nineteen ninety two poll tax for a household of two in Gloucester was five hundred and twenty one pounds . |
| 23 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 24 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 25 | I hate it when I get like this . |
| 26 | I tell you what make the most of it while he 's a baby cos when they get like this |
| 27 | Why , why do people get like this , tape recorder or film recorder or |
| 28 | they bolt like this in pairs |
| 29 | ‘ Grass you draw like this , ’ he would say , in a self-mocking demonstration of shorthand effects . |
| 30 | I 'm cutting grass there now but it 's cold today I cut that with a big scissor like this . |