Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 2 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 3 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 4 | He was treating her like a cheap pick-up . |
| 5 | To turn Christian , in the 1930s and after , was to declare for the past , and only Graham Greene among notable pre-war literary converts to Rome was to maintain anything like a left-Wing view of public affairs . |