Example sentences of "he [verb] it like " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , but will he see it like that ? ’ |
| 5 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 6 | Again , he was deeply drawn to it , he loved it like a woman and wore it at his side . |
| 7 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 8 | And he took it like a hero . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He wore it like a halo . ’ |
| 10 | He wore it like a sommelier 's key , an order of merit or a symbol of kingship . |
| 11 | He growled it like a bear , and grinned like a shark . |
| 12 | Late in his life , summing up the views of his Bloomsbury friends and himself , he put it like this : |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Well , he liked it like that . |
| 16 | He flapped it like a galosh . |
| 17 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 18 | He said it like it was a joke to be shared , but I winced , knowing what was coming . |
| 19 | Now that Mike 's gone he guards it like it were a blimmin' gold mine . ’ |
| 20 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 21 | He held it like a sword , perhaps imagining the gutting and the killing he could perform with this weapon which had once been used to carve the image of a woman in the land . |
| 22 | ‘ Did he say it like Harrison Ford would have said it ? ’ |