Example sentences of "it like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it like this |
| 2 | I never thought we could see it like this . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Put it like this . |
| 4 | ‘ But I do n't want it like this . |
| 5 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 6 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
| 7 | ‘ Even analysing it like this somehow makes it unreal , because in fact the whole thing is so un-selfconscious . |
| 8 | A young probationer WPC put it like this . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , put it like this , ’ replied Billy guardedly , ‘ it means they did n't eat all the deer during the war . ’ |
| 10 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 11 | Look at it like this and it will make you and the music feel good ! |
| 12 | No I do n't think so , I started my career with long hair and I like it like this . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's a good shot you got there , but , you know , on the next one , I 'd shoot it like this … |
| 14 | The Zambian journalist Titus Mukupo put it like this : |
| 15 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 16 | But expressing it like this makes it look as if there could be a quality of ‘ in-the-foot-ness ’ , and this is absurd since position is not a quality . |
| 17 | It 's very good of you to take it like this . |
| 18 | Jackie Jackson , a girl shot putter whose parents were Jamaican , put it like this : ‘ No matter what they say , all black kids go through a phase when they want to be white … |
| 19 | One believer in the limits of law puts it like this : ‘ laws are often ineffective , doomed to stultification almost at birth , doomed by the over-ambitions of the legislator and the under-provision of the necessary requirements for an effective law , such as adequate preliminary survey , communication , acceptance , and enforcement machinery . ’ |
| 20 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 21 | One recruitment manager put it like this : A year ago we were buying teams … now we 're filling holes . " |
| 22 | ( " You had a good try and you used the right sounds : it sounds like that , but we write it like this " ) . |
| 23 | Correct both kinds of error by saying " Yes , that is the way it sounds , but we write it like this … " . |
| 24 | I like it like this . |
| 25 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 26 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 27 | Well I 'll put it like this . |
| 28 | I did not see it like this at the time , but arched |
| 29 | ‘ Honestly , ’ Charles was saying , after more than an hour of beleaguered explanation , or semi-explanation , ‘ I did n't think you 'd take it like this , old thing , I thought you 'd — well , I thought you 'd be relieved , to tell you the truth . |
| 30 | Write their names write write it like this H C L N A O H |