Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves . |
| 2 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 3 | They glared at one another , attraction and antagonism crackling between them like electricity . |
| 4 | Her heart beat with abrupt violence , sexual attraction crackling between them like electricity . |
| 5 | Not that what I say makes any difference , because these two are still eyeing each other like welterweights at the weigh-in , and Darius stands between them like a referee . |
| 6 | Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows . |
| 7 | The lids were wrinkled above them like old venetian blinds . |
| 8 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 9 | She had n't mentioned David Markham but his presence had hung between them like a spectre and his name had n't been mentioned since . |
| 10 | Especially the ones with Burgess written through 'em like a stick of rock |
| 11 | The door slammed behind them like a thunder clap . |
| 12 | After what seemed an age , they came into a small room where the roof beams straddled above them like great barren trees , and the wind whistled through the tiny cracks where the moonlight shone through . |
| 13 | The ketchup bottle cascaded out into a million glass fragments which showered down in slow motion ; floating and turning lazily like snowflakes , the light shivering in them like jewels . |
| 14 | A mild muttering came from them like settling insects . |
| 15 | Presented to them like this , dace can do hardly anything else but accept your bait . |
| 16 | But it does not feel to them like real work and there is no financial reward and rarely any specific long-term achievable objectives which can be shared with others . |
| 17 | I 've got to decide what I 'm going to say to Mum and Dad — I 've got to picture them , feel what they always make me feel like and somehow change it … speak to them like speaking to a dream , make it my dream instead of their dream … |
| 18 | They had velvet flaps over them like letterboxes . |
| 19 | ‘ There is enough trouble for pensioners in this day and age without them having to go out and meet people such as you waiting to prey on them like jackals . ’ |
| 20 | They knew that anything , even Alice , could advance over them like bulldozers , crush them to bits . |
| 21 | Heads low , they pressed on , galloping whenever there was a moment 's calm and heat , turning away from the ice-laden wind when the ferocious shards of the glacier came at them like insects . |
| 22 | It came at them like a bullet from a gun , faster , faster , the tortured motor on a rising scream . |
| 23 | She came at them like a canoeist , breasting white water . |
| 24 | Why should you go clucking around them like a mother hen , just because they both hit the ceiling ? ’ |
| 25 | They want to hear truths which do not make them narrower but broader , which do not obscure but enlighten , which do not run off them like water , but pierce them to the marrow . ’ |
| 26 | A horse-rider towered amongst them , forcing against them like a rock in a torrent . |
| 27 | Two days ago when they had carted out Menzies the minister and Fleming the young teacher from along the road at Dull and danced round them like children at a Halloween fire and stuck them up on horses , facing backwards , and paraded them past the door and down the road to Aberfeldy , he had flung a soft carrot himself and caught the man on the side of his face . |
| 28 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 29 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 30 | Its seven towers claw towards the grey skies like the fingers of a mutated hand , and the bitter mountain winds howl around them like souls damned to torment by the foul sorceries of the Great Enchanter … |