Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 2 | No I want them like that . |
| 3 | You used to get two shears underneath your arm like that , and they used to drop them down like that , across your knees and top them like that , see ? |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't stand it when you touch me like that . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't bear it when you touch me like that ! ’ |
| 6 | You want something like that . |
| 7 | So you want something like that , it 's a hundred and twenty long , millimetres seventy wide |
| 8 | say something like that , oh no . |
| 9 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 10 | Rightly : arson attacks on mosques in Surrey and West Yorkshire suggest something like that may already have begun . |
| 11 | You never forget something like that , ’ says Steven , a 23-year-old supervisor at Heathrow Airport . |
| 12 | it 's only about twenty twenty , thirty , forty pee something like that . |
| 13 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 14 | When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry . |
| 15 | Say it , you say it like that , what 's the correct name ? |
| 16 | She 's your daughter She said there 's no need to up and say it like that . |
| 17 | That 's right , say it like that ! |
| 18 | We we just have this weird notation that we write it like this and we say it like that cos squared Z what we mean |
| 19 | He is evil when you say it like that . |
| 20 | I remember when you say it like that . |
| 21 | when you say it like this . |
| 22 | That 's alright I want it like that . |
| 23 | What could I have done to make Justin holier than thou , say anything like that ? |
| 24 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 25 | You got the band and you put them like that , and you twisted it round , did that and then it was a long band you see . |
| 26 | Oh yes you had er the the stooks you had I think ten in a stook You had five five sheaves at each side you put them like that , five you |
| 27 | ‘ I sincerely hope nothing like that happened . ’ |
| 28 | You hold them like that . |
| 29 | earn something like two hundred quid a week to match what they 're getting now ! |
| 30 | When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it . |