Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're leaving it like that then ? |
| 2 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 3 | I 'm doing them like that . |
| 4 | What we did say did n't encourage them to chat as we 'd always turn the conversation round to why they were keeping us like this . |
| 5 | what you can do is wind it like that and the hose winds up . |
| 6 | That one 's get it like that red well that number 's moved . |
| 7 | He 's undergoing laser treatment but as everybody will point out to you , when he 's in the Tardis and he 's operating the computer , even with his glasses on , he 's reading it like this . |
| 8 | is write it like that . |
| 9 | She had decided , in fact , to return the outfit , and Faye 's mentioning it like this forced the issue so that finally she found the courage to speak . |
| 10 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 11 | I was treating her like some harem favourite and she was repaying me in kind , except that any harem inmate who behaved with Lotta 's indiscretion would long since have been tied in a sack and dropped in the Bosporus ! ’ |
| 12 | then he was watching him like this then he ran |
| 13 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |