Example sentences of "like that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a different tone at the end of this paper , where Freud writes that our attitude to primitives is like that we ought to take towards children , ‘ … which we adults no longer understand and whose fullness and delicacy of feeling we have in consequence so greatly underestimated ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 3 | I stuck them in a milk bottle cos I ai n't got a proper flower vase , but they look OK like that I reckon . |
| 4 | If I could get a job doing summat like that I reckon I would n't have to stay at Combe Court . |
| 5 | Sandy , at three in the morning , watching Boy : ‘ If I was built like that I would n't wait until three o'clock to take my shirt off . ’ |
| 6 | And when the tears come like that I think it is better to retreat , to go home , to go to sleep , to leave wherever you are and try to just sleep . |
| 7 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 8 | At times like that I could not care a toss for JTR and wondered why the hell I was in such a situation . |
| 9 | I am not like that I am neither here nor |
| 10 | If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’ |
| 11 | Lord Beaverbrook would say : ‘ On important matters like that I never decide without consulting my nephew Jonathan . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know about them , but if you walked towards me holding something like that I 'd be pretty scared . ’ |
| 13 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 14 | If I ever felt like that I just would n't do it . |
| 15 | And like that I can feel John around here … |
| 16 | At times like that I feel I 'm doing a good job . |
| 17 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 18 | On the school run one day the vicar 's wife stopped the car and said : ‘ Diana Spencer , if you tell one more lie like that I am going to make you walk home . ’ |
| 19 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 20 | You see because if you start doing it like that I mean , you could say th th the mathematical skills , you could say well he 's good on number , but his graph work is poor and you know , he di , you know , you can not you ca n't |
| 21 | And , it 's things like that I ne , hope and anticipate that we can actually . |
| 22 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm like that I 'll have |
| 23 | ‘ Is there anything else like that I ought to know about him ? ‘ |
| 24 | We 're gon na need more than twenty five cos we 're also gon na to send it off to one or two major er er certainly Peter and people like that I think . |
| 25 | Well there were one or two that was a bit , got on their high horse , you know and say , It 's disgusting and that , but er I never did because er in cases like that I think there but for the grace of God , you know I I would n't condemn people , in those , we were living in very abnormal times you see . |
| 26 | But you were n't allowed to come out the pit , I mean you had to wait until knocking off time you see , before you were come out , Anything like that I mean er unless you 've got broken legs or anything like that . |
| 27 | And something like that I thought would have been a very good solution . |
| 28 | While I spoke like that I could pretend that Syl and his house were unreal and my projected presence in it merely an extension of that fantasy , but the wedding loomed ever closer like a rock and I , poor ship , was about to founder on it . |
| 29 | I , I had been er just in the chorus of the opera company and er you know , various the church choir and things like that I was in . |
| 30 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |