Example sentences of "[adv prt] like [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it . |
| 2 | we had , I told you , at this meal we went to , on Saturday they had erm carrot cake , but that was completely covered in like this cream cheese |
| 3 | , cos unless we 're going to get it straight , but it just all comes in like this time of year , and just comes and let us in . |
| 4 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 5 | You 'll go to bed if you carry on like that son |
| 6 | Was it between someone running off like that bloke in that |
| 7 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |
| 8 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 9 | Paulie 's burnt out like that fireman , look . |
| 10 | You work them out like that look . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't make trouble , it just follows me around like some dog in the street . ’ |