Example sentences of "like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher 's list for analysing pictures may be something like that of the American educationalist Thomas Munro : first impressions of the picture as a whole , line , light and dark , colour , mass , space , unity of design . |
| 2 | You give yourself away when you kiss like that . |
| 3 | ‘ I was able to soar up , to fly , I could rock in the air like that balloon , I could fly away with it , choose any of the four points of the compass , but I remained where I was , I stopped above this small , painful , blessed piece of earth . ’ |
| 4 | But the ‘ and 's ’ and ‘ or 's ’ and the more and more rarely irritate , and are triumphant in the great set-pieces which mean so much to all three books — like that palimpsest of faces in Addis Ababa . |
| 5 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 6 | The lordship in question is the novelist 's , not only in the usual sense , often forgotten , that every word of the novel is his , but also because the speech of its characters can be like that of the narrator , and indeed like that of the writer of Kingsley Amis 's discursive prose . |
| 7 | There must be some affinity between you and the man or woman on the printed page — something that you recognise not because you are ‘ just like that ’ but because you feel that you can interpret the situation with those words . |
| 8 | Do you mean like that working-class culture thing ? |
| 9 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 10 | Yet I like it like that . |
| 11 | Except that I can not work like that . |
| 12 | Just like that . |
| 13 | Where are the rules that can legislate for someone like that ? he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) . |
| 14 | Because I have wasted my time with something like that ? |
| 15 | Because that 's what it feels like today , he wrote , and because I know in my heart of hearts that it will feel like that tomorrow as well . |
| 16 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 17 | Like that ? he said . |
| 18 | If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake . |
| 19 | Ca n't afford a place like that . |
| 20 | Woodleigh 's too much of a gentleman , of course , for anything like that . |
| 21 | Strange , thought Bramble , that such an apparently dithery old lady should be able to look at you like that . |
| 22 | ‘ But do n't look at me like that . |
| 23 | ‘ If you carry on like that , Andrew , I 'll have to tell your father . ’ |
| 24 | How could Ma look like that at someone who could n't even speak English ? |
| 25 | But Claire is like that : one minute she knows nothing about a subject like ballet , and the next she 's a world expert . |
| 26 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 27 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's an interesting little puzzle when you think about it like that . |
| 29 | ‘ Watch out , Inspector , if you can talk like that in response to one of my brainwaves we 'll have you working here . ’ |
| 30 | I now had to start thinking about things like that . |