Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 2 | The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet . |
| 3 | Not much of a job when it came to put them on like the erm you know the pipe that pushes them out ? |
| 4 | So really just I I always have problems , I I always tend to play it down like that , I do n't know why . |
| 5 | We 've had to set it up like that , because sometimes people working late would like to pick up calls , expecting a call , or pick up calls on a different handset , . |
| 6 | We got to use them up like |
| 7 | Do they have to hack them about like that ? ’ |
| 8 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 9 | She fought as hard as she could against the iron grip , the bands of steel that were restricting her , trying to push her over like Mark . |
| 10 | They rang room service , then she had to push him off like a young puppy . |
| 11 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 12 | what you have to do is , Tim have the first go , we have to stir it round like that with a , with a fork , OK |
| 13 | But you have to hold it down like that , and not let it burst free and flop trembling onto the table . ’ |