Example sentences of "it like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet I like it like that . |
| 2 | Slow , he wrote , but I like it like that . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's an interesting little puzzle when you think about it like that . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't thought of it like that . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's it like ? |
| 6 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 7 | At the far end of the yard the Duke had planted his branch in the ground and was sitting under it like a potentate . |
| 8 | Byers felt the pressure on him to offer something and was restive under it like a dog on a tether . |
| 9 | As he said in his first novel , answering one of his early girlfriend 's naive questions , ‘ What was it like to have no father ? ’ he laconically answered , ‘ It made you more grown-up . |
| 10 | ‘ What was it like on the galactic tour of state ? ’ he went on . |
| 11 | In fact I even found myself trying to diagnose it like an illness , analysing it in terms of location , sensation , modalities , concomitants . ’ |
| 12 | What was it like being proposed to by a New York City Planner with a voice to melt molasses by ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's so time-consuming that most professional carvers avoid it like the plague . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Again , why the hell does n't she say OK , and then handle it like everybody else , do the bits that suit her and not do the other ones ? |
| 15 | And once she utters those words we 've to deal with it like rape , the whole procedure , medical examination , and questioning . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's it like at Brigade H.Q ? ’ |
| 17 | At dawn he walked again , and coming to a boating lake he drank from it like a horse , and filled his rubber bag . |
| 18 | Is it like this |
| 19 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 20 | Do n't do it like that , he said , do it like this . |
| 21 | Princes on white chargers are like bloodhounds , over mountain ranges and mighty oceans they can scent the whiff of virginal longing and are drawn to it like wasps to jam jars . |
| 22 | But what is it like to go from one pregnancy to the next — going on having more and more children ? |
| 23 | But what is it like to face Immigration Officers when you come to Britain for the first time , not knowing the language , uncertain about the future ? |
| 24 | I sort of dabble my foot in it like it 's a puddle . |
| 25 | HE : What 's it like out ? |
| 26 | When the doctors broke it to him that he would need an operation , his son noted that ‘ he is taking it like a hero . ’ |
| 27 | They get cheaper insurance rates because their accident records are better ; they have fewer problems with their cars because they do n't thrash them ; and they probably expend far less nervous energy when they are driving , because they treat it like any other domestic activity . |
| 28 | Of the Paternoster Square development , what he wanted to see , he said , was ‘ a roofscape that gives the impression that St Paul 's is floating above it like a great ship in the sea ’ . |
| 29 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 30 | I never thought we could see it like this . ’ |