Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 2 | They do n't build them like this any more — Healey ( top ) , Cobra ( above ) |
| 3 | ‘ You shall paint me like this if it would please you , Barney dear , ’ she whispered aloud . |
| 4 | It 's just great to have Marie touching me like this . |
| 5 | He 'll be sorry he 's treated me like this , Ellen ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How can you treat me like this after all I have sacrificed for you ? ’ |
| 7 | You ca n't treat me like this ! |
| 8 | If you do love me , how can you treat me like this ? |
| 9 | That means you can treat me like this . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 12 | Now , I have much to be getting on with and would appreciate your not following me about and interrupting me like this . |
| 13 | He had expected something like this , and had picked his spot to call Doyle very carefully . |
| 14 | Erm most of the furniture we choose either because we know it from inventories and lists to have been the kind of thing that was in middle class households in York , or in some cases like this , where we know the 's have actually owned something like this . |
| 15 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 16 | Hardy 's Wessex must have looked something like this . |
| 17 | ‘ How can you know something like this ? ’ |
| 18 | John Entwistle of the Who has one like this in his front room and Elton John is known to be a collector . |
| 19 | Indeed , we will need something like this if travel to other stars , let alone to other galaxies , is to be a practical proposition in the future . |
| 20 | If we analyze lots of water samples taken at different depths at the same we can then plot a graph of concentration versus depth and get a profile that looks something like this . |
| 21 | The only other thing we want to find out , so we know it looks something like this . |
| 22 | Er we have a marketing group that goes around the country doing that and when they er sign the surgery up to do the er for us to do the product or pri print the product they leave a sheet that looks something like this . |
| 23 | And what I mean by help out is that one of the documents that we leave er when we sign them up to take the product is a list that so that looks something like this . |
| 24 | The rest of Pincher 's Oxford ring looks something like this . |
| 25 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 26 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 27 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 28 | He would catch her like this , she thought disgustedly , old jeans , old sweater , dirty hands — and face , a quick glance in the mirror told her . |
| 29 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 30 | when you say it like this . |