Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How sickening of Miss Potts to pounce on her like that . |
| 2 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
| 3 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To talk to me like that , you must be who you claim to be — no one else would dare do such a thing ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'll feel good inside me 'cos she should n't dare to talk to me like that 'cos I 've never said to 'er noffink like that , you know . |
| 6 | On we walk , discussing hobbies , like two old geezers , and she tells e how nice it is to talk to me like this as sometimes she feels she has n't got to know me as well as she would have liked . |
| 7 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 8 | How had Keith dared to talk to her like that ? |
| 9 | ‘ Luke , it 's very good of you to look after me like this . |
| 10 | " This sure is mighty civilized of you , m'sieur , to look after us like this , " he drawled , letting a gracious smile play across his face . |
| 11 | I 've grown to know every inch of this foul little crypt , it 's beginning to grow on me like those coats of stones on the worms in rivers . |
| 12 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 13 | He must , to look at her like that . |
| 14 | So why , exactly , he now found himself wondering , had he come out to look at her like this ? |
| 15 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me like that , Luke , ’ she said unevenly . |
| 17 | Strange , thought Bramble , that such an apparently dithery old lady should be able to look at you like that . |
| 18 | You did n't have to glare at me like that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ To run after me like this , and then say you do n't want me ! ’ |
| 20 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 21 | funny to think of it like that , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 22 | An influential politician would command patronage , although one did n't like to think of it like that . |
| 23 | Nobody had ever dared to speak to her like that before . |
| 24 | ‘ You have no right to speak to me like this ! ’ |
| 25 | And on this he turned from her and hurried through the store-room , leaving her trembling , and not a little , at her own audacity in daring to speak to him like that . |