Example sentences of "it like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 2 | She is right , she does n't , though when I catch a glimpse of her left arm , her bruises are pink and prominent , crawling the length of it like squashed insects . |
| 3 | Below them were straight roads ridged above the fields , with villages strung along them as if clinging to the security of high ground ; isolated farms with their roofs so low that they looked half submerged in the peat ; an occasional church tower standing majestically apart from its village with the gravestones planted round it like crooked teeth . |
| 4 | Yet I like it like that . |
| 5 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's an interesting little puzzle when you think about it like that . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 8 | Do n't do it like that , he said , do it like this . |
| 9 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 10 | I never really thought of it like that . |
| 11 | Now , he asked himself as he chewed the bread , do I always do it like that ? |
| 12 | But they did n't mean it like that . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I do n't mean it like that . |
| 14 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 15 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 16 | ’ I do n't know how you can watch it like that . |
| 17 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 18 | funny to think of it like that , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Jolly sad , ’ boomed Ella , ‘ snuffing it like that . |
| 20 | And was it necessary to repeat it like that ? |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , Agnes , do n't say it like that . ’ |
| 22 | Ignoring is regarded by the child as a punishment , even if you do n't see it like that . |
| 23 | I have put it like that because the law does not mention God and concentrates on ‘ balance ’ rather than ‘ equal time ’ as some papers have reported . |
| 24 | After this somewhat less than well-chosen remark a momentary glassiness affected Fräulein Müller 's ready smile , but she was quick to recover her poise and said simply , ‘ You could put it like that , I suppose . ’ |
| 25 | Do n't take it like that , what I say . |
| 26 | Nell shivered. : Having said it like that , even though she had suspected it all along , brought a terrible picture to the mind . |
| 27 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 28 | I did n't mean it like that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ When you get it like that , it 's definitely a fluke , because usually it 's laborious . ’ |
| 30 | We do n't see it like that . |