Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just do n't understand where father got them or why he kept them hidden like this . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ What do you think of me appearing like that in front of the men ? ’ she asked in her slow , earnest , Germanic accent , gazing at Jane with steady blue eyes . |
| 3 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 4 | Why are you making me wait like this ? |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 6 | Not bad , I mean like that . |
| 7 | No I mean like that |
| 8 | I have to say that I hope Mr in fact did n't actually write the words of the motion it looks to me and those members of the education committee will know what I mean like another version of the Docklands back garden fudge . |
| 9 | When you 're working and you 're busy and you 've got to do it I mean like this last week because of playing golf mainly , and putting weedkiller down , the grass is this high and |
| 10 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 11 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 12 | I mean like this . |
| 13 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 14 | Yeah well if I sit like that . |
| 15 | And you rub backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , and I ground like this for several hours every night , after I came home , for three months . |
| 16 | Like me , I shake like that sometimes , Lyn thought . |
| 17 | well if I act like this I 'm no , nobody 's gon na come up and |
| 18 | Oh my chest hurts so much every time I cough like that . |
| 19 | I ca , I do n't I do like these shops but I ca n't go in them . |
| 20 | Why do n't I feel like that ? |
| 21 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 22 | ‘ This is one of the cutest outfits I 've ever worn — I look like some kind of exotic jockey ’ Pepsi , above |
| 23 | If I do n't have ruinously expensive scaffolding sewn into my swimwear , I look like some kind of tribal illustration in The National Geographic . |
| 24 | She said sniffing , inhaling the oily smell of the paint from his handkerchief , ‘ Do I look like that ? |
| 25 | The only person I know like that is John . |
| 26 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 27 | When I get like that , I get my urge to shout . |
| 28 | Sometimes I get like that , you know — I just forget where I am . |
| 29 | I hate it when I get like this . |
| 30 | ‘ How could I sleep like this , you bitch ! ’ |