Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] like that " in BNC.
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| 1 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 2 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 3 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |
| 4 | Now none of you would dream of doing anything like that . |
| 5 | There are plenty of people who have super-efficient secretaries , but the majority of us can only dream of having someone like that to put our working lives in order . |
| 6 | Well I , I 'd never thought of taking anything like that until she said , cos I , well you never pay , it 's all new to me , I have n't done it before and she said oh no she said we take these small tins of stuff with us and er make our sandwiches , cos there 's a supermarket I believe not far from there |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps he 's not capable of appreciating something like that . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd like you to play with that and just with twelve pennies until you 've found all the ways of arranging them like that . |
| 9 | erm the cost of of insuring something like that would make it erm out of play basically . |
| 10 | I 've been thinking about doing something like that , ’ I said , more out of politeness than accuracy . |
| 11 | Nobody kills anyone for saying something like that . |
| 12 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |
| 13 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 14 | But you have to be careful that by doing something like that you 're not making life completely onerous |
| 15 | Camille was quite aware that her mother coped with these unspoken tensions by leaving them like that : unmentioned , if not unnoticed . |