Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | They would n't have allowed them , you know , did n't want to kill themselves like that . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 7 | Er if but if you want to do something like that , to organise something , because if it goes on A five |
| 8 | How could he be expected to love anyone like that ? |
| 9 | What sort of girl she was , how she came to do something like this — ’ |
| 10 | I do not want to hear anything like that again . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 12 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 13 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 14 | As we have traced them so far , Goody 's arguments and my counter-arguments seem to go something like this . |
| 15 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 16 | Oh I seem to remember something like that . |
| 17 | So We know the graph is going to look something like this . |
| 18 | ‘ But how is Len going to afford anything like that if he do n't get no compensation ? ’ |
| 19 | no yeah there that 's gon na stick , it , there that 's gon na just about do it , there , well that 's going to stick it like that , so that 'll stay sticky |
| 20 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said . |
| 22 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 23 | She knew instinctively that he would like to leave her like that ; but he did n't . |
| 24 | Nobody had ever dared to do anything like that before . |
| 25 | I 'm going to leave it like that for a couple of hours . |
| 26 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 27 | And I 'd like to do something like that again . |
| 28 | I mean I 'd like to do something like that , but you could n't sell it |
| 29 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 30 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |