Example sentences of "like auntie " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ . |
| 2 | His behaviour must match what he says for us to say he has mastered the correct us of the terms he uses , but he does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate . ’ |
| 3 | They are ‘ performatives ’ , not statements like ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ and ‘ I hope she 'll come again ‘ . |
| 4 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 5 | That is , we are tempted to say that when he says , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ he is reporting his observation , by introspection , of a private object , an Auntie-Kate-directed feeling of liking . |
| 6 | We think we should not accept ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as a valid communication unless we allow for an answer to the question , ‘ How does he know ? ’ or ‘ What observation justifies him in saying that ? ’ |
| 7 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 8 | Our conception of how language relates to reality is such that we can not see ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as itself a bit of Auntie-Kate-liking behaviour . |