Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a bid to combat this , some companies are devising ways to identify their goods as genuine — for example , with security stickers or holograms like those on bank and credit cards . |
| 2 | This is because they are often deformed , either pointing backwards or shaped like those of a goat , or goose . |
| 3 | That was the whole point and the way , it was like , he could he could hit , he could , he could hit me or go like that to my hair or run his fingers through my face , rip all my clothes up , you know what I mean , not rip them off , rip them up ! |
| 4 | ‘ Can you think of another time when you have done this , or felt like this ? ’ |
| 5 | You 've really got what it takes — or sumpin' like that . |
| 6 | ‘ He wo n't call again unless something goes wrong , like he gets clamped or stuck in traffic or sumfink like that . |
| 7 | She turns round and you say something in then goes you know with absolutely no whatsoever and she turns round and goes like that like Jay does . |
| 8 | I picked her up by her neck and I said you bitch and she goes when you put your face up close to her she goes and puts her ears back and goes like that to your face . |
| 9 | There is one very bad answer to this question , which is depressingly common and goes like this . |
| 10 | runs along splash , does n't even make it , make it round , he just and goes like this and then , and then lands in the water like that . |
| 11 | ‘ She was admitted and treated like any other National Health Service patient to the accident and emergency department , and was then seen by a consultant . |
| 12 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 13 | You dream and feel things like a girl as well as like a boy , and you desire to dress and behave like both . |
| 14 | She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness . |
| 15 | In in school when I 'm copying off the board words with like K in the front but like they start with a C but I usually put a K and then the teachers go over them and say like this is a C sort of you know careless and all that . |
| 16 | The 1931 B minor Sonata is also far superior to a later version from 1933 ( although the space between Cortot 's various recordings was often narrow , his performances , while retaining their essential outward characteristics , varied in detail , biased this way or that according to the heat and inspiration of the moment ) with a ravishing second subject in the opening Allegro maestoso and a central quaver flow in the Largo in which melody and counter-melody swell and recede like some magical sea . |
| 17 | With that in mind , the basic command line for smartdrv resides in your CONFIG.SYS , and looks like this : device=c : \dos\smartdrv.sys |
| 18 | He usually talked and behaved like that with women . |
| 19 | Its top lip begins to extend and grow like some sort of elephant-horse , and the corners of its mouth pull up higher and higher so that its mouth looks longer and longer , as if a heavy-handed rider is pulling mercilessly at it . |
| 20 | Critics , however , point out that dinosaur joint surfaces were not usually smooth and polished like those of mammals . |
| 21 | And writing like this , if not indeed the writing of Thrones in general , I take to be inexcusable . |
| 22 | Instead , I ran screaming like a banshee into the garden engulfed in coils of stiffened pipe and looking like some mythical figure being consumed by a serpent . |
| 23 | Now , as Scotland 's religious and political position came to be a matter of major concern to France and England , they fully grabbed the chance to enter the world of European politics , and to behave like those who already inhabited it . |
| 24 | At whatever level of detail or generality , culture consists of signs which are structured and organized like those of language itself . |
| 25 | If the kidnap was bad enough , the death of his son , and done like that , has been like a bullet in his gut . ’ |
| 26 | Oh , Oh , I took the dog for a walk last tonight , and there 's some skid marks down the end of Crouch Road the there 's the and then they 'd taken half the road out and you can see someone 's done a wheely , and they 've gone in and done like this business and shot off ! |
| 27 | There 's piles of junk and stuff in tins the children should n't touch and stuff like that … ’ |
| 28 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 29 | Erm sometimes er I have n't mentioned much about the gender of the therapist but sometimes it can help a great deal if the therapist 's the same gender as the same person who 's undergoing therapy and it also helps if it 's er sometimes you ca n't very easily with some therapists , y'know it sometimes erm helps if it 's somebody you can trust and confide in and stuff like that and obviously , having met various psychiatrists and clinical psychologists , er quite a number of them are not people I 'd particularly like to talk about about being abused as a child . |
| 30 | Well at one time , I was able to cope with that , but eventually I found myself taking three and four weeks to do it , y'know , with time wasting for going out trying to score and stuff like this , just to feel as though I could cope with the job . |