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Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] like " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	you know and I says like
2	And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket .
3	all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one .
4	We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin .
5	Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’
6	Now Rebecca is five and she looks like this .
7	Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool .
8	So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum .
9	‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant .
10	That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool .
11	but at least he does decorate , good morning , he does decorating and things and he helps like that ,
12	And he talks like a translation . ’
13	and he talks like that and sh what the hell are they saying !
14	‘ Hey , Matt , ’ I say to him , ‘ We 're on a roll , let's go with the flow ’ , and he nods like some old prophet in The Ten Commandments .
15	I thump a rabbit chop on the back of his neck , and he crumples like a stabbed bull in the ring .
16	‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’
17	And he goes like that and throws a laser .
18	It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car .
19	And he looks like losing a fortune on it .
20	And he looks like remaining the only two- and four-wheeled world champion for quite some time … unless Joey Dunlop , Eddie Lawson or Wayne Gardner have other ideas !
21	Also he 's on the run and he 's scared and he looks like hell . ’
22	I just thought poor guy , I mean he was somebody who thought he 'd overcome food addiction , drink addiction , drugs addiction and he looks like a spider .
23	He 's a good-looking man , and he makes me laugh , and he screws like the angel of light .
24	And he fights like ten men still , as old as he is .
25	This is the showstopper : only 9.1 alcohol but a massive 287g of residual sugar , and it feels like it — incredible colour with an amazingly pungent nose-tickling scent , with hints of candied citrus fruit and butter .
26	As a result , its face appears to be covered in suede or velvet and it feels like soft moss to the touch .
27	It 's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit .
28	The cushioning provided by the Trinonic units in the EVA midsole did the job well and it feels like a very stable shoe .
29	I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning .
30	It 's HVS in summer and it feels like it in winter , too , as I shiver upwards to join Steve at the stance : a misnomer if ever there was one — just room enough for four front points on an edge .