Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't make me suffer like this ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps it was Lanyon 's horror that made me feel like that . |
| 5 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of tease — it was never that way — ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You make me sound like some kind of natural disaster . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You make me sound like some crazed nymphomaniac . |
| 8 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
| 9 | He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway . |
| 10 | He wondered what on earth had made him talk like that and why had he told McEllhoney of all people ? |
| 11 | Carrie had often seen him sit like that , fondling one of Hepzibah 's chickens . |
| 12 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 13 | How she would have loved to have seen him stumble like some lesser mortal . |
| 14 | Such questions might be , ‘ Does the fact that you feel this way make you respond like this ? ’ , |
| 15 | Do n't like to see you upset like this . |
| 16 | I ca n't bear to see you behave like this towards each other ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Do other men make you react like this ? ’ he asked at last . |
| 18 | To holiday here you not only get to feel a lot closer to God 's earth , but you also get to feel closer to your fellow man , and there 's not many places that make you feel like that ! |
| 19 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't like to hear you talk like that , Peggy . |
| 21 | It made me sad to hear him speak like that ; he did n't seem to understand that was all I wanted to do . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 24 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |
| 25 | And this job will make him feel like that , ’ said Fagin eagerly . |
| 26 | 1 When did it happen ? 2 What did he actually see ? 3 What did it make him think of ? 4 What made him think like that ? |
| 27 | ‘ When was the last time you saw me sweat like this , ’ he asked the throng of journalists and photographers at the news conference . |
| 28 | I only wish the box 's artwork did n't make it seem like such a hoot . |
| 29 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 30 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |