Example sentences of "[verb] him like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 2 | I do n't know him like the others . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 4 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 5 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 6 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 7 | It smothered him like dense mist . |
| 8 | Defeat entered him like a heart attack , stunning the centre of his system . |
| 9 | Jess asked , though she 'd noticed the questions seemed to be driving him like a snail into his shell . |
| 10 | The old lady would n't reach him in that time ; but the assistant saw her swing her right arm forward , the hand clutching a furled umbrella by its ferrule. the crook of the umbrella hooked inside the front of the little boy 's blazer and hooked him like a fish from water out of the path of the skidding car . |
| 11 | If he came back , to spread the word , no doubt they would hang him like a felon . |
| 12 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 13 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 14 | ‘ If that man hurts my sister , I 'll find him , and kill him like a dog . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I will find that man , and kill him like a dog . ’ |
| 16 | The nauseating sound of breaking bone was immediately followed by a crash as another blow to the side of the head dropped him like a stone . |
| 17 | When he finally surfaced , his mouth stale and his eyes hot and gritty , Lucifer 's atmosphere had already enfolded him like a shroud . |
| 18 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 19 | What had made him like this ? she pondered . |
| 20 | The young Heartfield ( who anglicised his name in a break with his German heritage in 1915 ) would have to be tied to the chair while his companions baited him like a caged animal . |
| 21 | It was really pathetic , meeting him like that in the flower shop . |
| 22 | ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this . |
| 23 | Six years on , the job almost seems to fit him like a glove . |
| 24 | You know , Pete and I encouraged him like anything in his writing . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't see him like this , Liddy ! ’ said Bathsheba , looking in horror at her dusty dress . |
| 26 | She did n't often see him like that . |
| 27 | Sleeping was no better — fleabites tormented him , fears plagued him like bad dreams . |
| 28 | She faced him like a small fury , hands on slender hips , breasts heaving with every laboured breath . |
| 29 | We watch him like you watch a dog crapping on the pavement . |
| 30 | It affects him like a smell , like a chime . |