Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 2 | But now we want them all shared out so instead of saying one remainder two we writ it like this now . |
| 3 | So , when he treated me like this , I laughed aloud . |
| 4 | she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this |
| 5 | And he liked her like this , when she was rumpled with sleep and undefended by make-up . |
| 6 | A young probationer WPC put it like this . |
| 7 | The Zambian journalist Titus Mukupo put it like this : |
| 8 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 9 | One recruitment manager put it like this : A year ago we were buying teams … now we 're filling holes . " |
| 10 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 11 | But they had them like this and they were square and oblong . |
| 12 | We always had it like this when Miss Alicia was alive . " |
| 13 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |