Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | During my basic training in the army in 1968 , one of the traditional marching songs we used went like this : |
| 2 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
| 3 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 4 | Actually I wish I 'd gone like this years ago cos you get |
| 5 | Barry and me had an almost mystical rapport when it came to stuff like this . |
| 6 | The conversation that followed went like this , as far as I can remember . |
| 7 | What they heard went like this : ‘ How many mountains are there , anyway ? |
| 8 | That 's what ev when I go , I goes to Daniel I 'm taping you know he started walking like this |
| 9 | He started balancing like this I goes , I 'm fil I 'm taping you not filming you , they think you 're filming them , you know , they look at the microphone and they go , hi ! |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you listen to Woil , 'cos given half a chance he 'll tell you all sorts of nonsense that no eagle should listen to , ’ Kraal said when Woil first started talking like this after Creggan 's arrival . |
| 11 | One of Ariel 's songs which he appended went like this , and sometimes Serafine sang it , and Xanthe and Miranda both enjoyed singing it with her , calling it the song of Manjiku : |
| 12 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 13 | If everything continued to go like this , there was a fair chance that he 'd have the village back on his side for the rest of the summer . |
| 14 | Baby had looked like this doll , as though nearly real , yet not quite , with a waxy pale skin , yellow-tinged , bright glassy eyes and a dainty pink mouth . |
| 15 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 16 | He was wondering whether the slaves who had been shipped to America had looked like this , when he felt his mother 's gentle touch on his shoulder and turned to find her smiling fondly at him . |
| 17 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 18 | The last time he had felt like this was in a house in Florence , when he and Julius had been about to visit Cosimo de' Medici and extract a commission to represent the Medici in Trebizond . |
| 19 | She had felt like this once before , and recently , she thought with sleepy vagueness . |
| 20 | They had argued like this until the plane touched down in Belgium : Tweed uncharacteristically negative ; Paula positive and working out escape routes . |
| 21 | His Mum had acted like this before , all secretive , he remembered now , when they 'd taken him to choose his bike , his last birthday . |
| 22 | It had smelled like this soap today , a light , entirely distinctive smell , a little like — what flower ? |
| 23 | She had behaved like this when his grandmother died a few months before . |
| 24 | The loss of her family , the futile years of servitude , even Edmund 's death — none of it had hurt like this . |
| 25 | The deal which DBV and Darlington council struck went like this : each agreed to put in £150,000 . |
| 26 | He had to think like this because of the nature of his employment , whereby he was often required to make inflated claims for the nature and properties of the products which his clients wished to bring to the daily notice of the populace . |
| 27 | Dot had lived like this for ever . |
| 28 | She continued thinking like this throughout her affair , separation from Karenin and life with Vronsky because she could n't help it . |
| 29 | I never expected to feel like this again , she thought . |