Sentence examples for like this did from inspiring English sources

This week's conversation sounded something like this: did you see my 46-yard sprint for the game's first touchdown?

To those who might sneer that such ideas are mere bucolic fantasy, the authors point out that something like this did actually happen during the Second World War.

"If projects like this did not contain a certain level of risk, alongside their enormous potential for creating jobs and generating clean energy, there would be no need for the bipartisan loan guarantee program," Mr. Jentleson said.

Back then, a typical day for Ms. Maples would be paparazzi barking questions like this: "Did Donald ever moan, 'Oh, Ivana'?" If you weren't in a coma during the '90s, you know Ms. Maples.

Each page is lit up by the bright light of memory, then is crumpled by the aging hand of scruple, only to be smoothed out again by the comfort of fine old feelings: It looked like this! Did it really look like this?

"One can hardly believe that a reasonable man can cling so tenaciously to such prejudice," he wrote to the National Urban League's executive director, Lester B. Granger, in 1946, "and there is sure to come a time in which schoolchildren in their history lessons will laugh about the fact that something like this did once exist".

Things like this do happen.

But meetings like this do have uses.

people like this don't deserve airtime.

Events like this do a valuable job.

Work like this doesn't come cheap.