Example sentences of "[verb] her like an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 2 | I would cherish her like an old man who 's caught a barmaid . |
| 3 | He treated her like an incompetent subaltern . |
| 4 | After that he greeted her like an old friend each morning ; she did n't mind , it was dull talking to Magnus who seldom listened , and he gave her protection from the intense political views of the Afghan 's owner . |
| 5 | Arriving like a final dea ex machina , Doris 's condition makes her like an ironic version of that goddess in Tennyson 's ‘ oenone ’ , ‘ Idalian Aphrodite beautiful , / Fresh as the foam , new-bathed in paphian wells . ’ |