Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 2 | How sickening of Miss Potts to pounce on her like that . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me like that , Luke , ’ she said unevenly . |
| 4 | The lacquered fingerboard felt to me like those few maple-boarded Les Pauls that Gibson made during the late '70s/early '80s . |
| 5 | ‘ You have no right to speak to me like this ! ’ |
| 6 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 7 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 8 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 9 | He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that . |
| 10 | I think it 's a menial sort of job — people look upon it like that . |
| 11 | ceramic tiles set in it like that |
| 12 | Hywel seemed to her like some hapless creature in a story , spellbound by despair , made powerless by circumstance , trapped by a ruthless magic without even the faery consolation of glamour , the illusion of delight . |
| 13 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 14 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |