Example sentences of "be [verb] like this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 2 | I 've never been treated like this before . ’ |
| 3 | Edward had never been treated like this before , and he felt dazed , swoonlike . |
| 4 | Have you been chinking like this all the time I 've been gone ? |
| 5 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 're driving like this to try and prove something , do n't bother on my account , ’ she said . |
| 7 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 8 | Anyway if you 're feeling like this maybe we should n't watch the match — you might start attacking me . ’ |
| 9 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 10 | Millions of calls are intercepted like this every day in Britain . |
| 11 | and their , their feet are going like this ! |
| 12 | He said well he used to go and he 'd sort of look up at it , and he 'd sort of think about how he was gon na put it in there he said then he 'd be going like this then he 'd sort of get hold of the other hand he said and he 'd put it in like that and these other old boys are going like this with full hands you know ? |
| 13 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 14 | She had bunked off work all this week , Joanie had rung in and said she had ‘ flu ’ , and every day had been spent like this . |
| 15 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 16 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 17 | Richard Rodzinski talked about Poland , and his wife observed that we were very lucky to be treated like this in Moscow , and they both laughed too . |
| 18 | It 's very frustrating to be treated like this , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I want to go across to Susan , how can court decisions be overturned like this ? |
| 20 | They go now with a much greater knowledge of their customers to manufacturers and say : ‘ We want our products to be made like this for us and we want them to be our products . ’ |
| 21 | Then Rodney would n't be tormented like this . |
| 22 | ‘ All the same , I have no wish to be seen like this , ’ Edward said as if that were the end of the matter — but Richard heard the catch in his voice . |
| 23 | If both primary and secondary stress need to be marked it can be done like this : demonstration . |
| 24 | So eventually all the windows will be done like this with with shutters and we can get rid of that wretched plastic but it 's all quite expensive . |
| 25 | She added : ‘ I never thought I 'd be living like this when I married Charles . |
| 26 | For example , if the word ‘ what ’ is said on a rising tone , ‘ what ’ , it might have a pitch movement that could be diagrammed like this : The four syllables in ‘ , what did you say ’ might be said like this : with the pitch of the syllables in the tail getting progressively higher . |
| 27 | ‘ When I 'm coasting like this — in the natural state , ’ she argued , ‘ the beams go a certain distance to reach me . |
| 28 | Of course , he never meant them to be used like this . |
| 29 | But I 'm going like this with the toilet , you see , it shot over the top ! |
| 30 | He said never been and I used to be going like this to you . |