Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] like [det] " in BNC.

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1 I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that .
2 It was the drink making him talk like that .
3 How many times on Monday morning did you go like that ?
4 ‘ Do other men make you react like this ? ’ he asked at last .
5 ‘ What the hell did you stop like that for ? ’ he asked harshly .
6 Such questions might be , ‘ Does the fact that you feel this way make you respond like this ? ’ ,
7 To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman .
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