Example sentences of "like [det] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southwell Southwell faces Mansfield which rather gets us in the stick you see because we have to come here for Benefit Office interviews and things like that but you got to Mansfield |
| 2 | I 'm sure that none of the Springbok players will have felt like that as they came off the pitch , but , in the long run , the losses will benefit them . |
| 3 | So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ? |
| 4 | And I do wish you would n't swear like that when you talk about business . |
| 5 | It certainly sounds like that when you look at the quote we 've put above , which is just like the blurb of a 1950s movie poster . |
| 6 | No I 'm sorry but they really were like that when I went to Kent . |
| 7 | She always felt like that when she spied on him which she did quite often , watching him through a gap in the hedge , or from the roof of the boathouse . |
| 8 | talk like that if I want to . |
| 9 | Liked to pull that down that 's a normal hip joint , this is your bony pelvis with the socket joint , right , socket , this is your leg bone the femur , with the head of the femur at the top and it looks like that and they fit into one another and it forms a very good swinging joint you can do all sorts of things with your hip joint , ca n't you ? |
| 10 | A friend of mine sends things like that and they got ta be and the proofs have to be sent . |
| 11 | Where the road is , you sh- , you should sort of come out like that and the main road sort of goes round like that and you need to sort of go like that . |
| 12 | He just gave it up like that and he went to Australia ! |
| 13 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 14 | Well they ran it like that cos they said at the bar we can sell you a bottle of wine for seven pound fifty though , so he said you bugger off he said that , went down the supermarket and get our own like |
| 15 | Well I think it looks good but like that cos it looks like clear water . |
| 16 | ‘ Yer never used to be like that till they came wi' their hot water and their olive oil — oil 's fer boilin' people not for washin' in . ’ |
| 17 | The answer is that individuals have to develop like this because we live in societies which have evolved through all three stages of economic and cultural adaptation ( and their frequent partial repetitions and recapitulations ) . |
| 18 | So they go on like this till they get to late adolescence and then they can have a reasonably normal diet , having said that , they need constant monitoring and they would also be very used to a diet with not very much of milk , egg , fish and cheese etcetera . |
| 19 | In NZ this would be no problem as there would be loads of backpackers ( cheap accommodation ) within cooee of the airport , but Britain being a backward country there is nothing like this and we stayed with friends who live 20 miles away in the heart of the Sussex countryside . |
| 20 | I mean the thing that they latch onto all the time is that they think it 's perfectly reasonable that they should compliment a young woman and so on , and I do see , Bill , that this is a problem because these men have been brought up like this and they think of themselves as being polite and courteous and , you know , a little flirtatious and doing all the things that actually they were taught women like and is rather nice . |
| 21 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 22 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 23 | It was because we were unable to bear troubles like these that we came into the Party . |