Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 3 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 4 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 5 | I do n't bother to answer him back when he goes on like that . |
| 6 | Dad goes on like that , especially when his secretary 's off with a nervous breakdown again . |
| 7 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 8 | What if he goes on like this for ever ? |
| 9 | I 'm afraid he 'll get too hot and destroy himself one day , if he goes on like this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said Julia with feeling , ‘ if he goes on like this , I should think someone will break his neck . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Of course he goes on like this because he 's jealous , ’ said John , when he and Ianthe were alone . |
| 12 | On March 1st a French listening post overheard a German remark on the telephone : ‘ if it goes on like this we sha n't have a man left after the war ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought Mum was much too old to carry on like that . ’ |
| 14 | Well he 's going to carry on like that is n't he ? |
| 15 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 16 | ‘ Why does he always have to go on like that ? ’ |
| 17 | but I ca n't afford to go on like that you see |
| 18 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 19 | ‘ How much longer are you going to go on like this ? ’ |
| 20 | Sits down like that and he does a dooberry on top of the wall . |
| 21 | Crashing in like this . |
| 22 | ‘ I appreciate your stepping in like this . |
| 23 | Well it looks fine tucked in like that . |
| 24 | And I 'm just gon na say you know , I think it would be better if Scott did n't rush in like that , you know ? |
| 25 | hiatus hernia is where you ripped your stomach and your stomach goes in like that and it stops it going down |
| 26 | It just goes in like that . |
| 27 | You trot down like this . |
| 28 | Now also on the site working there was a man kneeling down like this , and he had a black beard , Do n't have n't got the question yet . |
| 29 | . I ca n't bear these bible bashers that push in like that . |
| 30 | Well I 'm hanging down like this to increase the circulation to my head |