Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [vb infin] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't like to see you upset like this . |
| 2 | I ca n't bear to see you behave like this towards each other ! ’ |
| 3 | Series 444 round and 555 flat Cotman Brushes from Winsor & Newton are ranges of pure synthetic brushes which have fibres of differing thicknesses to help them perform like sable . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't like to hear you talk like that , Peggy . |
| 5 | It made me sad to hear him speak like that ; he did n't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do . |
| 6 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 7 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 8 | It 's cruel to make me suffer like this ! |
| 9 | ‘ That 's right , I 'm not begging food this time but clothing , have you anything to make me look like a man from these parts ? ’ |
| 10 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
| 11 | HE 'S the wackiest cop on TV — and he aims to make you groan like never before as he tries to crack his latest case . |
| 12 | What have I done to make you feel like this ? |
| 13 | Well , Friday nights round here there 's plenty to make you feel like that ! ’ |
| 14 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 15 | What had she said to make him look like that ? |
| 16 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 17 | we tried to make her look like a person . |
| 18 | ‘ Stapleton had the idea of buying a huge hound , and of using the phosphorus to make it shine like the hound in the story . |
| 19 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 20 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
| 21 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 22 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 23 | In the Sun 's report , the accused was alleged to have told the police that he stripped the victim naked and cut off one of her breasts to make it look like ‘ the work of a madman ’ . |
| 24 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
| 25 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |
| 26 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
| 27 | Twist each sheet slightly to make it look like a petal . |
| 28 | Cover the log with the rest of the mixture , using a fork to make it look like bark . |
| 29 | To make it look like suicide , the killer would have to get the unconscious — or possibly already dead — man across two metres of rough , stony ground . |
| 30 | Sergeant Bourne , his administrative assistant , was there with three detective constables , doing their best to make it look like home . |