Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 2 | He laughed mirthlessly , despairing of her understanding , ‘ You ca n't expect those who are evicted to see it like that . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you want to put it like that , yes . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 5 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 6 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 7 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She knew instinctively that he would like to leave her like that ; but he did n't . |
| 12 | I 'm going to leave it like that for a couple of hours . |
| 13 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 14 | Well we got er Mrs that was in she 's like , when she comes on phone you 've got to hold it like that . |
| 15 | you 've got to have it like that |
| 16 | I do n't want to do it like that . |
| 17 | it up again here , so I did n't mi wish to discuss it like this so as I said it 's gon na be twelve months ' time . |
| 18 | I 'll have to do it like this . |
| 19 | I 'll have to do it like this ! |
| 20 | I want to be taken seriously , which makes it galling that when I 've got a brain , certain types of men try to treat me like some empty-headed bimbo who … ’ |
| 21 | Exemplifying the way that lazy speaking leads to lazy writing ( nothing to do with dialect , this ) it began one sentence : ‘ Whever as a mid-day snack or an evening bite ’ Whether it meant to put it like this is unlikely . |
| 22 | I , I do n't tend to do it like that at all , I do it very nearly go , it 's on the wrong side unfortunately . . |
| 23 | I do n't want to end it like this , ’ said Foreman , who won the world title in 1973 from Joe Frazier and lost it in 1974 to Muhammad Ali . |
| 24 | So er I never expected to have it like that . |
| 25 | And they used to have to put it like that on these er pins all the way down . |
| 26 | Ca n't afford to eat them like that ! |
| 27 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 28 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 29 | I think I prefer to get it like that and , instead of having a whole onion it 's better when , they 're , the big ones like they are bit too big are n't they ? |
| 30 | She had n't planned to approach him like this . |