Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen her like this before , when she had her nose in those poetry books , and once when he 'd sneaked up the stairs and caught her using the telephone . |
| 2 | He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . |
| 3 | and he 'd done them like that in microwave for eight minutes and er , done sprouts then he 'd put this meat pie in oven |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So er I never expected to have it like that . |
| 6 | He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home . |
| 7 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 8 | What had made him like this ? she pondered . |
| 9 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | No man had kissed her like that . |