Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm stage perhaps go for something like that for another couple of years and then yes , I mean when they 're getting a bit bigger and they |
| 2 | She even had reservations about his admitted feelings about her — at least if he went on looking at her like that . |
| 3 | ‘ You must not think of it like that , dear , ’ Stevie told her gently . |
| 4 | I have not heard of anything like this before , certainly not up here . |
| 5 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that . |
| 7 | ‘ You do not speak to me like that . |
| 8 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 9 | I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny . |
| 10 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 11 | Kate would not stand for anything like that , she was too straight . |
| 12 | Well I hope they do because you end up with the wrong bloody solution if you just go at it like that . |
| 13 | Erm erm they just went through it like that and then he gave her instructions on how to fly it as well , how to throw it |
| 14 | I hope you 're not talking to me like that . |
| 15 | As Mr Howe said : ‘ People say you make your own luck but you can not legislate for something like that . ’ |
| 16 | But the trouble is that they do not account for anything like all the shares of most firms . |
| 17 | ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that . |
| 18 | No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking . |
| 19 | Nobody has ever looked at me like that . |
| 20 | Do n't you ever speak to me like that again , I have n't , I rang , no , no , I the landlord either , I waited until the next morning . |
| 21 | do n't you ever speak to me like that again , and do n't ever push me again , I said balls you old cunt . |
| 22 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 23 | ‘ If you ever speak to me like that again , I 'll flay the skin off your arse . |
| 24 | No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played . |
| 25 | How could he possibly look at her like that after the beauty they 'd just shared together ? |
| 26 | It was the first time that anybody had ever spoken to me like that and I was shocked . |
| 27 | No one , but no one , had ever spoken to her like that before , and she did n't like it , all the more because she knew he had a point . |
| 28 | They always do after something like that . |
| 29 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 30 | I think probably , bearing in mind that the , the mortgage would be paid , I think we 're probably looking at something like more like three hundred thousand . |