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 . |