Example sentences of "it like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want it to like me , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |
| 3 | Do n't do it like that , he said , do it like this . |
| 4 | This is not a government which likes to ask fundamental questions , nor does it like thinking on its feet and making strategic policy decisions almost overnight . |
| 5 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 6 | I entered one full of nuns , their winged white coifs illuminating the dim interior , making it like a candle-lit church . |
| 7 | ‘ Piero della Francesca does it like this , ’ and he describes the way the figures in Piero 's Baptism look at each other , drawing in the observer . |
| 8 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 9 | I like it , I like it alright , but does it like me , that 's the trouble ! |
| 10 | Jess felt it like a physical blow . |
| 11 | ‘ He did it like a decent horse , and is still improving , ’ said Nicholson , whose career is on the crest of a wave at present . |
| 12 | Quoting Machiavelli 's prediction on what could happen to anyone committed to bringing in change , Sir Ron warns that ‘ whenever those who are hostile have the opportunity to attack , they do it like partisans , while the others defend lukewarmly , in such wise that the innovator is endangered along with them ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think they see it like that , exactly , ’ said Masklin . |
| 14 | Put the light here , do it like this . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Now he 's seeing it like this ' , ‘ now like that ’ would only be said of someone capable of making certain applications of the figure quite freely . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure Peter saw it like that . ’ |
| 17 | We did it like this … ’ |
| 18 | Feminist psychologists sometimes see it like this . |
| 19 | I do it like this because she was really beautiful , then . ’ |
| 20 | " Do it like Edrich , " we 'd plead in between hysterical laughter . |
| 21 | Fromentin and Gerome see the soil of the South as colourless , and a lot of people see it like that . |
| 22 | He used to say , " Mum does it like this . " |
| 23 | Okay do it like that . |
| 24 | I see it like this . |
| 25 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 26 | She had bought this expensive dress to capture notice ; she felt it like a blow that the little monster sidling along , sleek and positive , dark hair in brisk waves , silly doll-dress denying fashion , had all the qualities that Nicandra lacked . |
| 27 | Seeing it like this , it 's hard to imagine it packed with bodies , as it is at weekends when the weather 's good . |
| 28 | However , in devising its method of collecting poll tax , in the words of that famous song , ’ If there was a wrong way to do it , the right way to screw it , ’ nobody did it like Nottingham . |
| 29 | 2 ) A cycling awareness programme promoted by RoSPA , called ‘ Right Track ’ — aimed at educating youngsters , but with the emphasis on them working out solutions to problem situations ( eg turning right ) themselves instead of the trad cycle proficiency ‘ do it like this ’ approach . |
| 30 | But when you see it like that you do n't just distort the world , you distort yourself . |