Example sentences of "him like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His life aboard was entirely idle ; the others waited on him like two wives , catering to his needs and bolstering his ego . |
| 2 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 3 | to lure him like late Monet |
| 4 | He wanted to feel warmed through to his spine , to have the comfort steal into him like strong ale . |
| 5 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 6 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 7 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 8 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 9 | So we looked up to him like that . |
| 10 | Threatening him like that had most likely scared him off . |
| 11 | And on this he turned from her and hurried through the store-room , leaving her trembling , and not a little , at her own audacity in daring to speak to him like that . |
| 12 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 13 | But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare . |
| 14 | He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that . |
| 15 | It was really pathetic , meeting him like that in the flower shop . |
| 16 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't look straight at him like that , ’ Nick said . |
| 18 | Müller had said to her once , ‘ How can you live with him like that ? |
| 19 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |
| 21 | Running into him like that . |
| 22 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 23 | Really Thérèse , Madeleine scolded her : to upset him like that on his first day at home ! |
| 24 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Linton would be angry if she heard you talking about him like that , sir . |
| 26 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
| 29 | She did n't often see him like that . |
| 30 | Football crowds think that if you can treat an England player like that at Wembley , then they can all treat him like that on the league grounds . |