Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could he hold her so tenderly one moment , only to treat her like this the next ? |
| 2 | Terror suddenly hit her like an iron arrow in the breastbone and her throat seized up and she choked . |
| 3 | So try it like that and swing your mallet too so you wo n't be able to go above hoop three and |
| 4 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 5 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 6 | Bright blusher looks far too blatant in summer , so avoid it like the beach on a bank holiday . |
| 7 | Yeah I was talking to her and she 's got this ma he 's not a spastic he 's just got such bad taste in music and he just plays it like it 's sort of like |
| 8 | I 'm grateful that you listen to him , and do not treat him like a fool just because he is old . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 10 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 11 | But we do n't normally make it like that . |
| 12 | You just repeat it like a machine . ’ |
| 13 | You just repeat it like a machine , ’ crowed Julian . |
| 14 | You just repeat it like a machine , ’ agreed Damian . |
| 15 | ‘ For not patronizing me like everyone else . |
| 16 | With Forster supporting his legs , Delaney used the forward motion of the boat to haul Nell from the water , finally landing her like a slippery black sea creature . |
| 17 | well how stupid why 's he just done it like that ? |
| 18 | You can just do it like a normal take away . |
| 19 | Do you just do it like a school dictation in French , writing down the words , with conventional punctuation . |
| 20 | Nora had not seen her like that since the day she and Sam had arrived at Coutances . |
| 21 | She just put it like that , but it 's not . |
| 22 | Okay , just put it like that . |
| 23 | When he finally surfaced , his mouth stale and his eyes hot and gritty , Lucifer 's atmosphere had already enfolded him like a shroud . |
| 24 | You 'll not mind it like that though do you ? |
| 25 | That 's not fresh , that 's not cool — they just usin' it like it was a slang word ’ |
| 26 | They just usin' it like it was a slang word . ’ |
| 27 | If I did that with my rings , just threw them like that , he 'd go absolutely apeshit ! |
| 28 | Of course I did not see it like that at the time . |
| 29 | I did not see it like this at the time , but arched |
| 30 | I do not see it like that , and I am sure that the nation as a whole would not either . |