Example sentences of "like [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa felt like slapping him for his sarcasm and his arrogance . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception . |
| 3 | I mean … making them slaves is like condemning them to … to … ’ |
| 4 | Mungo felt like patting him on the back to show him that they sympathized , but the moment passed , and anyway Mr Zamoyski might not have understood . |
| 5 | Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall . |
| 6 | In her early scenes , Ms Robertson 's vocalising is so strident that at times I felt like strapping her to a chair and stuffing a wad of cotton in her mouth . |
| 7 | OUR super EXCLUSIVE Wallchart features 14 of the terrible tearaways and the dramatic full-colour pictures give you just a hint of what it must be like to meet them in the ring . |
| 8 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 9 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 10 | It 's nothing bad it just says erm something like tell her about |
| 11 | When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight . |
| 12 | And something like hit me from the inside , |
| 13 | Not like doing it by remote control , having Jem set up a trip-wire . |
| 14 | The Pritchards have n't given up yet , but they say putting them in a council house would be like putting them in prison . |
| 15 | The other day , in America , the driver of my car said : ‘ I do n't know how you can leave her , ’ and I felt like smacking him in the face . |
| 16 | and I mean , unless yo , and they said do n't clip it near your throat because it would I felt like clipping it round his throat ! |
| 17 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 18 | The president is not free to choose , to start wars wherever he feels like it , the president is not free to make agreements with any country he feels like making it with and some presidents have had to learn the hard way . |
| 19 | I had it like had it like a jab like a |
| 20 | I felt like leaving you to him . |
| 21 | Like watching him on his yacht with her last night , agonising but compulsive . |
| 22 | She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself . |
| 23 | I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock . |
| 24 | Violet shook free from his grip , this dwarfish creep ; she felt like hitting him with her shoe . |