Example sentences of "she [vb past] like [det] " in BNC.

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1 Had he seen her before she lived like this ?
2 And her pumps are like that , I 'm , like that , and she got , she she got like this from there .
3 She always did choke off any men who showed signs of wanting to get close to her and she did n't know why she behaved like that .
4 Hofmeyr believed he knew why she acted like this .
5 Let me try and reconstruct what she looked like that day .
6 He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her .
7 If she looked like that , he 'd probably have walked right past her .
8 She would rather stand outside the door all day long than face Mademoiselle when she looked like that .
9 With sun-glasses on her head , she looked like any other early-season tourist .
10 He was certain to ask her to dance when she looked like this !
11 When Rebecca was a baby she looked like this .
12 She looked like some grotesque statue in a pagan ritual .
13 She looked like some rich man 's daughter .
14 I thought she went out , she went like that .
15 So she went like this pulled our her note card and said I can put it on now she said .
16 And she laughed and she said here here here she went like this and I shou shouted as well .
17 And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this !
18 Oh , she went like this .
19 ‘ If she felt like that , then why did you have her to live with you ? ’
20 She felt like that fish caught by the curlew , one part of her praying that he would spit her out again , the other , perversely , longing for him to swallow her up .
21 She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles .
22 He suddenly wondered whether she smiled like that because she could rarely allow herself the full release of a complete smile , but must always keep one side of her lips tucked under control .
23 Dana was bewitching when she smiled like that and Roman did n't seem at all annoyed by her persistence .
24 He waved to her from the gate , where she stood like any housewife seeing off her man .
25 She sat like that for what seemed like ages while I tramped round the room , nervous and on edge and blabbering with the excitement .
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