Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 2 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 3 | I did not see it like this at the time , but arched |
| 4 | Undoubtedly the parties did not see it like this . |
| 5 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 6 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 7 | You ca n't just desert her like this . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I always wear it like this for work , so leave it alone . ’ |
| 9 | He had an awful premonition he would always remember her like this — that he 'd never recall her cheerful buoyancy , her glowing smile when she had teased him . |
| 10 | started off doing them like this and it was U D V by D X |
| 11 | We always had it like this when Miss Alicia was alive . " |
| 12 | I 'd rather have him like this . ’ |
| 13 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 14 | You ca n't treat me like this ! |
| 15 | THEY SHOULD N'T make 'em like this anymore . |
| 16 | ‘ But I do n't want it like this . |
| 17 | They do n't build them like this any more — Healey ( top ) , Cobra ( above ) |
| 18 | ‘ Even analysing it like this somehow makes it unreal , because in fact the whole thing is so un-selfconscious . |
| 19 | Try not to do it as you go , I mean , try to have a very definite idea in your mind what you want to do cos otherwise , you know , you start off , you 've painted half of it grey and think oh do n't like it like this bit ! |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't see him like this , Liddy ! ’ said Bathsheba , looking in horror at her dusty dress . |
| 21 | The parents ca n't see them like this . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't leave them like this ! ’ |
| 23 | He was right , but she could n't leave him like this . |
| 24 | And … and you ca n't leave me like this , with nothing … |
| 25 | Please do n't leave me like this . |
| 26 | Well I ca n't leave it like this can I ? |
| 27 | Do n't think you can barge in here harassing me like this , ’ she snapped , ‘ shooting questions at me as if you were taking part in a firing squad . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah I have but I do n't how to do them like this I 've not seen it been d drawn out like that . |
| 29 | But why write it like this . |
| 30 | He had never seen her like this before and , despite himself , was glad of the moment . |