Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The eyes that burned through her seemed to hold her like rivets . |
| 11 | It seemed to follow her like Hitler , Himmler , and the marching white faces of all the dead men . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 13 | We 've got to treat you like best bone china . |
| 14 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 15 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not a child , you know , although you seem to treat me like one . |
| 17 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 18 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 19 | no yeah there that 's gon na stick , it , there that 's gon na just about do it , there , well that 's going to stick it like that , so that 'll stay sticky |
| 20 | ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said . |
| 21 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 22 | She knew instinctively that he would like to leave her like that ; but he did n't . |
| 23 | I 'm going to leave it like that for a couple of hours . |
| 24 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 25 | Well we got er Mrs that was in she 's like , when she comes on phone you 've got to hold it like that . |
| 26 | you 've got to have it like that |
| 27 | I do n't want to do it like that . |
| 28 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 29 | As his championship hopes grew in the second half of the season , his fellow Italian riders began to treat him like their little brother . |
| 30 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |