Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm very worried that my mouth may remain like this and feel something must have gone wrong when the tooth was removed . |
| 2 | I do n't understand why the council should act like this . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's wonderful that you should feel like this about Olly . |
| 4 | She said , " I really can not imagine why you should react like this . |
| 5 | Shiona struggled for breath , appalled that she should react like this . |
| 6 | The man leading the hunt , Detective Superintendent Ian Whinnett , said : ‘ There is nothing in Joanna 's background to suggest why she should vanish like this . ’ |
| 7 | She could not bear the thought that after all they had gone through , all they had sacrificed to get so far , it should end like this . |
| 8 | Better that it should end like this , when justice was not only done but manifestly seen by all to be done . |
| 9 | See , you must sit like this . " |
| 10 | You must continue like this until the channel is completely clean and you can see from one end to the other . |
| 11 | No I 'll do like this . |
| 12 | Harry is a King penguin — he 'll look like this when he 's an adult . |
| 13 | A typical self-assessment sheet might look like this : |
| 14 | A job match sheet might look like this : |
| 15 | The routine for a haulier offering 30 days ' credit might look like this : |
| 16 | The cycle for purchases might look like this : |
| 17 | Now this act can take any form you like , I could go or I can go right , then I 'll go like this , and I want you all give me a great big round of applause . |
| 18 | Er she 's always and jigging about you know but when she plays very still and she hits the ball stands up quick , watches where it goes , she 'll go like this , this up jump |
| 19 | Right , somebody with congenital dislocation of the hip , the hip will sag down it will cause them great difficulty and they have a waddling gait , and they 'll walk like this and if you look at African women a lot of them have congenital dislocation of the hip when they waddle |
| 20 | Charlotte Bartlett is Lucy 's warning : ‘ marry early or you may become like this ’ , that is , fussy , dependent on others , pitied , a nuisance . |
| 21 | He imagined he could act like this . |
| 22 | The fact that governments could cheat like this will clearly be known to rational agents and might introduce some uncertainty about government policy . |
| 23 | ‘ How was I to know you 'd feel like this ? ’ she protested , her guilt sharpening into a defensive anger . |
| 24 | She had never imagined that a kiss could feel like this , that a man 's arms could enclose and shield her so thoroughly against any other awareness , that her body would respond so passionately and so completely from the roots of her hair to the backs of her knees . |
| 25 | She would never have thought that she could feel like this in her whole life . |
| 26 | She had never known such deliriously exquisite sensations , never known that one could feel like this and still want more . |
| 27 | A hierarchy table could look like this : |
| 28 | Unfortunately , they 'd sound like this load of old cobblers . |
| 29 | It might be a laugh if we some of us could communicate like this too . |
| 30 | I could walk like this for ever . |