Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] like this " 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 | Why are you making me wait like this ? |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 7 | I mean like this . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | well if I act like this I 'm no , nobody 's gon na come up and |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | I hate it when I get like this . |
| 12 | ‘ How could I sleep like this , you bitch ! ’ |
| 13 | , I suppose like this morning after his breakfast , and he went and he , he , it was quite big |
| 14 | Am I distressing you as I talk like this ? ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel like this is OOR subway , Agnes . |
| 16 | I know that sounds kind of spiritual and weird , but I really do ; I feel like this was important to him and so it 's really important to me . |
| 17 | Perhaps , I thought , sitting on the bed and watching Flora , perhaps I feel like this because I am ashamed to be a woman , a member of that subjugated race whose preoccupations are so trivial and unimportant . |
| 18 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 19 | Because it 's a long time since I felt like this , as good as I do now . |
| 20 | But I did n't trust myself , Pat , I thought I might harm her if she was with me while I felt like this . ’ |
| 21 | I felt like this for about four months now . |
| 22 | one night when Paul came up and I was n't asleep and I saw like this bright light |
| 23 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 24 | Okay I go like this do n't butt in Okay . |
| 25 | If I go like this , it means a hug , like that . |
| 26 | How can I walk like this ? |
| 27 | I , I mean I went like this into dinner okay , and I suppose everyone was like what 's she doing in a skirt or whatever cos they were all like looking and then like half way when I was eating I could feel them all staring at me and laughing and Jim and that lot were laughing and I could see Charlie |
| 28 | Oh yes she did and I went like this , |
| 29 | Yeah , pull the trigger my dad , my dad goes I went like this , he said do n't worry it 's not loaded fired , just past my dad 's head |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd go and sell ice-cream outside the Stock Exchange , which is why I dressed like this . ’ |