Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well he said he has n't heard nothing like it before . |
| 2 | She would never have let someone like that come home with her . |
| 3 | ’ The daughter cut in , she 'd seen me like this before . |
| 4 | ’ They brought the nurse round because they 'd never seen me like this before . |
| 5 | ‘ She 's seen me like this every morning for over a week now , ’ he told her , giving her a cheeky grin , ‘ and still she loves me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard of them , but this is the first time I 've seen them like this . |
| 7 | For me coming from Africa where locusts eat our crops all the time I 've never seen them like this . |
| 8 | You 'd seen them like , no . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never seen nothing like it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | A throne with 1,000 years of history has seen nothing like this before . |
| 11 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 12 | In all its long journey from the heart of Africa , it has seen nothing like this : the tall modern buildings sprouting suddenly along its banks , the incessant flow of traffic across bridges , the noise , the confusion . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen nothing like that , ’ she said . |
| 14 | I 've seen maggots brown , I 've seen them white , I 've seen them red and crawling , but I never seen nothing like this in my life before ! |
| 15 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 16 | We 'll have seen nothing like it before in boxing history . |
| 17 | The specialist said he had seen nothing like it in a football injury . |
| 18 | Well I ai n't seen nothing like that on there have you ? |
| 19 | you 've never seen nothing like it |
| 20 | He said he climbed up squabbling , seven Debbie had in her hand you never seen nothing like it Joy I could n't , oh it made me really ill |
| 21 | You 've never seen nothing like it . |
| 22 | Never seen nothing like it in me life . |
| 23 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 24 | Where have I seen someone like him before ? ’ |
| 25 | Eyes poppin' out , breath stopped — never seen owt like it . |
| 26 | ‘ Mind , I 've never seen owt like it in the way of business , only in the books . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never seen you like this , Nora . |
| 28 | For most of the past two years , after the first cracks in the ice were heard , Eastern Europe 's future used to be seen something like this . |
| 29 | Claudia must have seen something like this many times — dances , endless dances , meaning what ? perhaps meaning nothing until you come along and ask what they mean . |
| 30 | So whatever sort of question comes up you will have seen something like it would n't you ? |