Example sentences of "they like " in BNC.
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| 1 | A place for all kinds of wildlife to stop off and drink , it will attract them like a magnet . |
| 2 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 3 | A horse-rider towered amongst them , forcing against them like a rock in a torrent . |
| 4 | But someone must have been slipping amongst them like a stoat , noting , memorizing , carrying word stealthily to the Duke of Atholl . |
| 5 | However , in order for the abdominals to grow you must treat them like any other muscle group , and work them hard for 8 to 12 reps using 3 to 4 sets . |
| 6 | The local team 's reply to England 's 334 for 4 was a not unimpressive 221 for 3 , with a trio of schoolboy prodigies ( 'We could produce them like this on better pitches , ’ Stewart said ) in their line-up . |
| 7 | Neighbourhood men are often the butt of jokes among section police about their laziness , because what the neighbourhood police do does not seem to them like work , and certainly not ‘ real ’ police work . |
| 8 | Primitive sexual rituals pursue Sweeney and Doris even into the heart of London , pursue them like Furies . |
| 9 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 10 | There were the cowboy ones — two rough riders facing each other with their enormous dicks hanging out in front of them like door handles with a caption . |
| 11 | as if to turn attention away from the continual coldness of his hands , he pulled on the gloves comically and pretended to grope about the room with them like a blind man . |
| 12 | They do n't build them like this any more — Healey ( top ) , Cobra ( above ) |
| 13 | He could see the bridge now , its stones gleaming silver and the hart 's tongue ferns between them like shivering slivers of metal . |
| 14 | They had velvet flaps over them like letterboxes . |
| 15 | The ketchup bottle cascaded out into a million glass fragments which showered down in slow motion ; floating and turning lazily like snowflakes , the light shivering in them like jewels . |
| 16 | And they suddenly began to laugh , the joke toppling over them like a wave , until they wept tears of laughter , stared at by the loud , powdered woman , and by the waitresses newly attired . |
| 17 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 18 | It was the lack of physical strength and heart shown by certain Spurs defenders as Villa swept past them like a claret and blue tidal wave . |
| 19 | Then , ducking his head under , he tried to free Gomez 's legs but the line was in and out of them like a cat 's cradle . |
| 20 | ‘ You scare them like hell . ’ |
| 21 | A stream of other officials walked in and out regularly to give advice , pass on information or carry in the heavy wooden boxes full of papers which surrounded them like a stockade . |
| 22 | He had his own gun and he killed four men and two women , shot people for looking at him , never mind saying anything , shot them like on television , with no blood , no noise and no justice . |
| 23 | The great spire of the Munster loomed above them like an arrow pointing to heaven . |
| 24 | Rightly speaking , this is not the Soldier 's tale at all but the Devil 's , for it is he who controls everyone at all times , playing with them like pawns in his game , a game of wrecking and destroying , of interference and final triumph . |
| 25 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 26 | Suddenly , a man , as if mad , ran among them like a fox among chickens , snatching and swiping the air with hands and feet . |
| 27 | As the trio grew up , so the hurts piled up until they were stacked upon them like old 78 records , each playing the same dreary old repetitive tune . |
| 28 | ‘ Doc was a bully with the players , he treated them like dirt , ’ claimed Crerand adding that several players disliked him so much they threatened to ‘ do ’ him . |
| 29 | I try to treat them like anyone else . |
| 30 | At school the other children treated them like royalty . |