Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Unless Flixe needs me , ’ he said , looking at his wife with a mixture of protectiveness and adoration that made Julia think back to her own honeymoon and wonder whether Anthony had ever looked at her like that .
2 Why had he looked at her like that ?
3 No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking .
4 Nobody has ever looked at me like that .
5 Looked at me like that .
6 He had not really looked at it like that before .
7 ‘ I had n't looked at it like that .
8 Oh yeah , I 've never looked at it like that before , yeah , ah , ah
9 Did n't your detective johnnie come across something like that in one of your books ? ’
10 ‘ I 've never come across anything like this before .
11 André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick .
12 You have n't heard of anything like that at all have you ?
13 A spokesman for The Magistrates Association said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this happening before . ’
14 ‘ But I 've never heard of anything like this before . ’
15 Mr Jackson said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this before but it did not really spoil our day .
16 I have not heard of anything like this before , certainly not up here .
17 ‘ Too much is made of something like that , ’ says a cast member who witnessed the row .
18 She always felt rather uneasy when he became absorbed in anything like this .
19 Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait .
20 He 's never thought about it like that .
21 Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked .
22 ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’
23 ‘ I had n't thought of it like that .
24 Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before .
25 ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . ’
26 I had n't thought of it like that .
27 He had n't talked to her like that for ages .
28 No one had ever talked to her like this before , and she was n't at all sure how the game — if it really was a game — should be played .
29 She was a strange child , and often talked to herself like this .
30 ‘ It is surprising that my stepmother resorted to something like that .
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