Example sentences of "on like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put your hand on and see if it 's sticks on like burning flesh . |
| 2 | The mustard goes on like acrylic paint , and the world is not my oyster . |
| 3 | ‘ And you know the two foresters who live here in the village : they 're fine when they 're at home , but when they go to the village they 're responsible for , in Dolpo , I bet they carry on like all the others do , terrorizing people . |
| 4 | Yeah , but she hung on like blue death ! |
| 5 | ‘ If you carry on like that , Andrew , I 'll have to tell your father . ’ |
| 6 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 7 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 8 | ‘ Why does he always have to go on like that ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a terrible woman altogether to be leading a fellow on like that ! |
| 10 | If the boy carried on like that , he 'd scare off everything : the birds , the fish , the lot . |
| 11 | I do n't bother to answer him back when he goes on like that . |
| 12 | ‘ Cathy Henderson better not hear him on like that , ’ Natasha said . |
| 13 | Dad goes on like that , especially when his secretary 's off with a nervous breakdown again . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , trying it on like that . |
| 15 | ‘ If yer lets ‘ im go on like that , 'e 'll lose yer the baby , ’ she said , and winked . |
| 16 | It was a special feeling to score , and hopefully I can carry on like that . ’ |
| 17 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 18 | She would bet her last pound that her Terry did n't carry on like that . |
| 19 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 20 | Whittering on and on like that , you sound like a blooming Lefty ! |
| 21 | and it went on like that … |
| 22 | I 'll be as bald as a coot if you go on like that . |
| 23 | It went on like that , the three of us never quite living together , never wholly apart . |
| 24 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 25 | We chatted on like that and life seemed pretty nice . |
| 26 | He went on like that ; really he did ! |
| 27 | I wonder if she carries on like that in London ? ’ |
| 28 | " If you go on like that , " said Kevin , " you 'll be back in there before the week 's out . |
| 29 | And then of course there was a erm also the scrubbing board , which was a corrugated board which you used to rub the clothes on like that . |
| 30 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |