Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just great to have Marie touching me like this . |
| 2 | One believer in the limits of law puts it like this : ‘ laws are often ineffective , doomed to stultification almost at birth , doomed by the over-ambitions of the legislator and the under-provision of the necessary requirements for an effective law , such as adequate preliminary survey , communication , acceptance , and enforcement machinery . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ … he had no right to hit you like that ! ’ |
| 4 | He was n't a part of her life any more , he had no right to treat her like this ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 7 | Raymond Williams puts it like this : it was argued that man 's spiritual health depended on a kind of education which was more than a training for some specialized work , a kind variously described as ‘ liberal ’ , ‘ humane ’ or ‘ cultural ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ No need to take it like that . |
| 9 | There 's no need to take it like that … |
| 10 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 11 | But it was still a shock to see her like that , looking so old and spent . ’ |
| 12 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 13 | Why was Tod punishing me like this ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Some do , er the rise and fall type of fitting over a dining table where when you 're er , er having dinner you 'd have erm it down to about what not more than twelve inches above the table er so that it lit the table but did n't shine in your eyes , erm some people leave it like that all the time , other people having had a meal lift er it up , erm I think the main thing about the , er adjustable fly and fall is that erm , it 's there for , as you want it , if you 're trying to find a meal you 've lost on the floor well then you pull it down to floor level really . |
| 16 | One recruitment manager put it like this : A year ago we were buying teams … now we 're filling holes . " |
| 17 | A young probationer WPC put it like this . |
| 18 | She said thoughtfully , ‘ I suppose I 'm just gullible , allowing a man 's sheer showmanship to affect me like that . ’ |
| 19 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 20 | He 's bit and bridle , ball and chain , a rope to tether me like any other animal . ’ |
| 21 | The Zambian journalist Titus Mukupo put it like this : |
| 22 | ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 23 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 24 | Cliftonville manager Frankie Parks put it like this : ‘ There was a lot of frustration on the day but the better side won . |
| 25 | He would like Isobel and Dorothy to see him like this . |
| 26 | One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain . |
| 27 | How , against all the evidence , all the overwhelming knowledge she had about Guy Sterne , could she have let events overtake her like that ? |
| 28 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |
| 29 | She knew what " this fellow " meant when Dada said it like that . |
| 30 | Why should it have the power to hurt her like this ? |