Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She wo n't want to see someone like you . |
| 3 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 4 | Fifty two year old Agnes Smith does n't need to lose anything like that amount , but as part of our search for a healthy lifestyle she 's agreed to try this form of group therapy . |
| 5 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 6 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 7 | He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ . |
| 8 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 9 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 10 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 11 | To make a hole in masonry or concrete you do not need to exert anything like the pressure you do with a conventional percussion/ratchet hammer drill which basically relies on drill rotation to wear away the material . |
| 12 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 13 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 14 | Okay , what does it mean in terms of the number line ? the number line there , and we want to do something like two add three , what does that mean ? |
| 15 | Er the goods that what , not goods that we want to give them like junk food and ludicrous fashions , to find out what it is that they want this of equipment and no , and do n't forget the know-how , I mean we are , we have a hell of a Know-how in this country which is not being used . |
| 16 | How could he be expected to love anyone like that ? |
| 17 | The trainer believes he still has time to get Rodrigo de Triano back to peak fitness for the 2,000 Guineas but stresses that the colt will not take his place in the Classic if the ground softens up : ‘ If there is even a touch of soft , he wo n't run ; he needs to have it like a road . ’ |
| 18 | But once we have left school and have gone on to a different sort of existence , those relationships cease to have anything like the same meaning . |
| 19 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 20 | For a moment I thought he was about to dare to let himself like me , but the wife was watching , alas . |
| 21 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 22 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 23 | erm , quite frankly I 'm looking to have something like probably a , that 's twelve , sixteen phones working this thing next year |
| 24 | It seemed to follow her like Hitler , Himmler , and the marching white faces of all the dead men . |
| 25 | I do not want to hear anything like that again . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 27 | We 've got to treat you like best bone china . |
| 28 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 29 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 30 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |