Example sentences of "like [adj] and it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so you could pull it up and down and the effects went out the bottom of the tube , the tube came up like that and it came over , and like that and then the shade would be like that and then you could swing it round |
| 2 | Kevin 's brother , who fancied himself as an amateur psychologist , said you did n't really forget things like that and it meant Lyn must unconsciously want not to wear it — ergo , not to be married . |
| 3 | and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ? |
| 4 | It was thing with two prongs and you tap it in like that and it lifted the neeps , then you did that with the yeuk |
| 5 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 6 | But still , if you , but definitely if you feel like that and it goes |
| 7 | and it goes like that and it goes |
| 8 | My mum just pulls her down like that and it stays there ! |
| 9 | Yes a row of houses and of course when I saw I looked out the door and there was this plane swooping down like that and it seemed so low because they were aiming an and the bomb fell in the cattle market and , and I threw myself on to the stone floor , you see , and er and presently one of the ambulance men came round to my office door and he said , are you alright ? |
| 10 | hiatus hernia is where you ripped your stomach and your stomach goes in like that and it stops it going down |
| 11 | Well , some of the racecourse gon na be made like that and it cost a fortune , mind ya . |
| 12 | Talking to journalist Brian Connell , he said : ‘ You have got to choose somebody very carefully who could fulfil this particular role because people like you , perhaps , would expect quite a lot from somebody like that and it has got to be somebody pretty special . ’ |
| 13 | Well they had to do , , and everybody 's got here that he 's a , he 's engaged , and there , and I mean I know I 've used doing my scribble , but here 's a little spout here like that and it 's got a tap on it , and that 's what it is . |
| 14 | you imagine cruising in a car , lovely car like that and it makes no noise . |
| 15 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 16 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |