Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 2 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I would n't let him treat me like that . ’ |
| 4 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 5 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 6 | She was n't going to let him affect her like this — never again ! she told herself desperately , taking a deep breath as she tried to ignore her racing pulse . |
| 7 | Mad to let him kiss me like this . |
| 8 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 9 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 10 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 11 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 12 | Why was he hounding her like this ? |
| 13 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 14 | They 're not kissing each other , he goes like that , he put his arm round the other man and he kisses him like that . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but will he see it like that ? ’ |
| 16 | So , when he treated me like this , I laughed aloud . |
| 17 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 18 | How did he get them like that ? |
| 19 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 20 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 21 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 22 | And he liked her like this , when she was rumpled with sleep and undefended by make-up . |
| 23 | Well , he liked it like that . |
| 24 | Well he slips me like hundreds ! |
| 25 | Why was he watching her like that , studying her so intently ? |
| 26 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |
| 27 | So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords . |
| 28 | He treats her like this because he wanted to marry Nettie , Celie 's sister , but her father said he would give him a cow as a dowry if he married her instead . |