Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] like that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 2 | But it stopped it like that , it was only just smouldering you know . |
| 3 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 4 | If I did that with my rings , just threw them like that , he 'd go absolutely apeshit ! |
| 5 | You did n't cry , nobody showed it like that . |
| 6 | I did n't think they bred them like that any more . |
| 7 | ‘ I was a bit overwhelmed when she kissed me like that because we 'd never met before and it was in public . |
| 8 | They were in , aha , yeah , they were in bed , right , and this , look , in bed , listen to this , sound asleep it 's on the radio and news , they 're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys , the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this , this the lad |
| 9 | I suppose they arranged it like that . ’ |
| 10 | The way her heart seemed to squeeze inside her chest , the way her pulses seemed to skip a beat whenever Roman watched her like that , was deeply disturbing . |
| 11 | You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that . |
| 12 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 13 | cos the red goes straight line always , does n't matter whether you hit it like that , that , that , that , that red ball will always |
| 14 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |
| 15 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 16 | And you still treated her like that ? ’ |
| 17 | I never meant it like that , no , you do n't go to the same you wanker |
| 18 | And they , and they both got it like that , they both got it like that . |
| 19 | And they , and they both got it like that , they both got it like that . |
| 20 | Well , he liked it like that . |
| 21 | Cos I had him , I just , I just had him like that first sixteen points and we could n't play properly cos no one won . |
| 22 | Well they ran it like that cos they said at the bar we can sell you a bottle of wine for seven pound fifty though , so he said you bugger off he said that , went down the supermarket and get our own like |
| 23 | And wrote it like that and published it like that . |
| 24 | She knew what " this fellow " meant when Dada said it like that . |
| 25 | It did n't sound so bad if she said it like that — family — no threat to Glyn 's ego . |
| 26 | You just lifted them you and you just set them like that . |
| 27 | And wrote it like that and published it like that . |