Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that needs to go into that nee that needs to go into something like this to go out . |
| 2 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 3 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
| 4 | I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know . |
| 5 | An influential politician would command patronage , although one did n't like to think of it like that . |
| 6 | Nobody had ever dared to speak to her like that before . |
| 7 | I 've grown to know every inch of this foul little crypt , it 's beginning to grow on me like those coats of stones on the worms in rivers . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | You did n't have to glare at me like that . ’ |
| 10 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 11 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 12 | And on this he turned from her and hurried through the store-room , leaving her trembling , and not a little , at her own audacity in daring to speak to him like that . |
| 13 | ’ You do n't want to rush into something like that . |