Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 2 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 3 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 4 | His face was scarlet and twisted with hate and he began to attack me like a wild animal . |
| 5 | reason to treat her like a black |
| 6 | but I do n't see , I 'm trying to make it like a genetic connection or something I mean or some kind of like you know I mean to me it 's just set up |
| 7 | Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way . |