Example sentences of "going [to-vb] [pron] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 2 | But is Bigwig going to see it like that ? " |
| 3 | I suppose you could , if you were going to wear it like that , you could take the belt right off . |
| 4 | So We know the graph is going to look something like this . |
| 5 | ‘ But how is Len going to afford anything like that if he do n't get no compensation ? ’ |
| 6 | no yeah there that 's gon na stick , it , there that 's gon na just about do it , there , well that 's going to stick it like that , so that 'll stay sticky |
| 7 | If you 're going to do something like this , do it big . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we were n't going to do it like this any more , ’ Rogers said . |
| 9 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 10 | I 'm going to leave it like that for a couple of hours . |
| 11 | Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus . |
| 12 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 13 | Well if you , all I was going to say is , if you 're going to get something like that , I mean we could buy something that would make a set . |
| 14 | ‘ You know , I was rather afraid you were going to say something like that . ’ |
| 15 | We are most positively not going to say anything like that . |
| 16 | Well a can of worms , or a heap of possibilities , whichever way that you want to put it , but the Children Act in total we are going to spend something like another four hundred thousand in nineteen ninety one , in the new financial year , which is good news . |