Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 2 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 3 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 4 | He tried to lighten his mood , grinning at her like a schoolboy , ‘ Apart from anything else we could make love at breakfast-time , lunch-time and tea-time . ’ |
| 5 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 6 | This time masculine appreciation came at her like a wave and her answering smile was enough to light the room on its own . |
| 7 | That was still the thought in her mind as she struck the ground , not knowing how she came to be there , as one never knows , having suffered a blow aimed from behind which came at her like a thunderbolt , felled her in the presence of a hundred indifferent spectators and left her prostrate , struggling as in those terrible lodging-house dreams , to get up , to breathe , while the weasel-pack fell on top of her , shrieking with laughter . |
| 8 | Cherry said : ‘ He came at me like a man possessed . |
| 9 | She came at me like a madwoman . |
| 10 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 11 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 12 | What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop , we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired . |
| 13 | Ariel was bitter ; in turns Sycorax 's power stifled her , then the old woman 's weakness dragged at her like a disease afflicting her as well . |
| 14 | The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony . |
| 15 | Erica grinned at me like a witch , saying , ‘ You 're much too physical for the literati . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy . |
| 17 | She 's still staring at me like an animal . |
| 18 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 19 | But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them . |
| 20 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 21 | And he laughed at her like a boy . |
| 22 | ‘ Talking about matters of import , ’ Riven said absently , though uneasiness buzzed at him like a fly . |
| 23 | He looked at them like an auctioneer trying to improve a poor lot m a cattle market . |
| 24 | The thin man niggled at him like a flea in the hide of a rhinoceros . |
| 25 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 26 | He smiled at her like a cat smiling at a mouse . |
| 27 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 28 | I knew the joy of the world and wondered at it like a child . |