Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he be making small talk when their bodies were pressed together like this ? |
| 2 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 3 | FIG. 2 From outside , the Milky Way probably looks rather like this typical barred spiral galaxy , NGC4535 . |
| 4 | It was unjust and degrading to be hustled away like this , Sabine thought . |
| 5 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be wondering , ’ said Mr Stanforth , approaching by inches , ‘ why I asked you to come here like this . |
| 7 | Are you the Serpent , to come here like this , filthy and venomous ? ’ |
| 8 | It might be a very tight thing that looks almost like this . |
| 9 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 10 | In fact , it goes exactly like this . |
| 11 | But look around you and see how many people sit just like this ! |
| 12 | And he shall not , he shall not , walk onward like this over my discomfiture , secure that his foot can not slip . |
| 13 | you see because living here like this and er I mean , I mean only yesterday I heard of an people burst in the door and this old lady on the head and where 's your money and that sort of thing , you know , so it it 's really terrible . |
| 14 | Conversations with Maisie had a habit of going astray like this . |
| 15 | It is not a tuck stitch at all , but the name comes from the same term used in dressmaking , where woven fabric is stitched , or tucked , into ridges that look much like this fabric . |
| 16 | What should she do , stranded here like this ? |
| 17 | Although it is traumatic , having one 's life turned upside-down like this , discovering I 'm not the person I used to be . |
| 18 | He looks so good when he 's going forward like this lays it off for Crosby and clearance is lacked away by Simon Greyson . |
| 19 | But the next one sounds exactly like this . |
| 20 | She could sunbathe just like this . |
| 21 | Anyone who has been locked away like this would understand . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , at this very moment , by speaking openly like this , we are both doing the very best we can to make it work . |
| 23 | We 're not getting anywhere like this . |
| 24 | Not getting anywhere like this . ’ |
| 25 | The breakdown of an estimated £30 to £35 million for the organisational costs goes roughly like this : £18 million from official suppliers , in kind , such as computers , copiers and clothing ; £6 million from ticket sales ; £3 million from the Sports Council and £6 million from advertising . |
| 26 | She complained of blisters on her hale glaring days they worked away like this , too tired and stiff at night to want to go anywhere but to bed . |
| 27 | ‘ A week later , travelling always like this , like the émigrés in the 1790s , I arrived there . |
| 28 | I know it 's out of order , me coming here like this , but it 's urgent , could n't wait . ’ |
| 29 | The conversation then went approximately like this : |
| 30 | Take a Break , and he looked just like this , they , oh it was er , a wrong picture or something it looked just like this poor bloke and a pale wrote in from this town saying oh I know him |