Example sentences of "[be] [verb] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Rodzinski talked about Poland , and his wife observed that we were very lucky to be treated like this in Moscow , and they both laughed too . |
| 2 | It 's very frustrating to be treated like this , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I want to go across to Susan , how can court decisions be overturned like this ? |
| 4 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 5 | Then Rodney would n't be tormented like this . |
| 6 | ‘ All the same , I have no wish to be seen like this , ’ Edward said as if that were the end of the matter — but Richard heard the catch in his voice . |
| 7 | If both primary and secondary stress need to be marked it can be done like this : demonstration . |
| 8 | So eventually all the windows will be done like this with with shutters and we can get rid of that wretched plastic but it 's all quite expensive . |
| 9 | She added : ‘ I never thought I 'd be living like this when I married Charles . |
| 10 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 11 | Of course , he never meant them to be used like this . |
| 12 | He said never been and I used to be going like this to you . |
| 13 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 14 | The structure of extract ( 2 ) could be shown like this : |
| 15 | The ways in which we communicate in face-to-face interaction can be summarised like this : |
| 16 | Um Khalid explained that she had never imagined that one year ago she would be speaking like this today . |
| 17 | Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this . |
| 18 | Yeah it 's all organised , it 's not like like the gypo 's will be doing like this |
| 19 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 20 | For example , if we represent the pitch range by drawing two parallel lines representing the highest and lowest limits of the range , then a normal unemphatic ‘ yes ’ could be diagrammed like this : but a strong , emphatic ‘ yes ’ like this : |
| 21 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 22 | Considering the three /o/ words , it is clear that there are three different spelling patterns represented : It needs to be indicated that these three forms , plus the o of open , are the major ways in which the sound is spelled : in other words , when the pronunciation indicates the sound o , then it 's likely , depending on the position of the sound in the word , to be spelled like this : The oa is a medial spelling , but much rarer than o-e : boat , coat , float , goat , soap , throat . |
| 23 | The SRP60N ribber can be set like this , but you can also use the autoset lever to produce a fabric that has only a single colour on the reverse . |
| 24 | And if a multinational company could be run like this then why not governments , why not the world ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's odd we should be talking like this , ’ he said at last . |
| 26 | ‘ Really , Jules , you should n't be talking like this about Monsieur , ’ Alice protested . |
| 27 | Well that 's true , yes , yes , David , yes I do n't think we should be talking like this you know . |
| 28 | I do n't think we should be talking like this but it 's quite natural is n't it ? |
| 29 | Like I 'd be talking like this and suddenly it 'll go . |
| 30 | If it was on , I would n't be talking like this . |