Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.

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1 cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know
2 I hate to see it like that . ’
3 They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that .
4 Fifty two year old Agnes Smith does n't need to lose anything like that amount , but as part of our search for a healthy lifestyle she 's agreed to try this form of group therapy .
5 He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ .
6 He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’
7 ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’
8 Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five
9 You might enjoy doing something like that . ’
10 How could he be expected to love anyone like that ?
11 CATHERINE Why did you have to go frightening me like that ?
12 He 'd kill me if he knew I 'd made something like this . ’
13 He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone .
14 He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right .
15 and he 'd done them like that in microwave for eight minutes and er , done sprouts then he 'd put this meat pie in oven
16 Ihave three sons and I would know , and if they 'd done anything like this I would dislike them , and even hate them
17 ‘ A young detective remembered that I 'd had something like that stolen , ’ he says .
18 What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’
19 Stop affecting me like this , attacking me on all fronts with your damned charm and intelligence and unbelievable sex appeal !
20 It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this .
21 I do not want to hear anything like that again .
22 ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’
23 And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day .
24 But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? "
25 I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off .
26 As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this .
27 I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad .
28 Oh I seem to remember something like that .
29 So We know the graph is going to look something like this .
30 ‘ But how is Len going to afford anything like that if he do n't get no compensation ? ’
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