Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nobody has ever looked at me like that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the first time that anybody had ever spoken to me like that and I was shocked . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had not really looked at it like that before . |
| 8 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 9 | Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah |
| 10 | He 'd never smiled at her like that . |
| 11 | He 's never thought about it like that . |
| 12 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 13 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 14 | He had never spoken to her like that before . |