Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] like this " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | ‘ How could you let me down like this after all the effort I 've made ? |
| 2 | Sorry to let you down like this , and miss the drinks and the lunch and the first bit of p.m . |
| 3 | I am doing the firm no harm by tipping you off like this because Kovacs recommends you to buy a clock from them that will not simply tell you the time . |
| 4 | Fright fully had show , waking you up like this … but I 've got something damn peculiar here . " |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the most tremendous imposition , I know , and I have absolutely no right to call you up like this or anything , but I just — I just … ’ |
| 6 | Then he puts you out like this . |
| 7 | Moviestars invariably fucked you around like this until there was a script to defer to . |
| 8 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 9 | This is not good , what you are doing , calling me back like this . |
| 10 | Set them out like this okay so that 's three fours or four threes make twelve okay . |
| 11 | If you had n't been consistent in laying them out like this , then you ca n't so quite confidently go round , go round erasing large chunks of the spreadsheet . |
| 12 | Only I hate you shutting me out like this . ’ |
| 13 | Eventually her voice grated , ‘ You ca n't kick me out like this . |
| 14 | He seemed to think he could carry her off like this , and get away with it . |
| 15 | How dared Rune set her up like this ? |
| 16 | At first , Theda did not know whether she was more angry with Lady Merchiston for loaning her out like this , or with Mrs Rosalia Alderley for making such an impertinent request . |
| 17 | The big clubs were watching from the stands at the Manor and Joey could well become a top transfer target if he turns it on like this . |
| 18 | Come here , I 'll move it through like this . |
| 19 | That 's the trouble with talking it over like this . |
| 20 | , should keep should keep it growing really long so when you go a bit thin , just grease it over like this |
| 21 | That 's right , so we need to turn the boat round and line it up like this . |
| 22 | They would not wait it out like this for long . |
| 23 | But it 's only by sort of putting it out like this and thinking yes , the media wants to talk about this , talk about that , talk about the other , you know , they are in this case the most , the likely thing to be adding to the problem . |
| 24 | Mm I 'm sure that holding it out like this one can do |
| 25 | Yeah , this guy comes home from work and his wife 's got the chair and she 's picking it up and taking it around like this |
| 26 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 27 | Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't fob us off like this for long — ’ she began heatedly . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's remarkably kind of you to put us up like this , and we 're both very grateful . ’ |