Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You need not treat me like a half-witted child ! ’ |
| 2 | But please , Mama , Lucinda pleaded silently , do n't treat me like a complete idiot . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 4 | Do n't treat me like a naughty schoolgirl . |
| 5 | We 've decided now that you you must n't treat me like a chi child . |
| 6 | Hazel , Hazel thinks you should n't treat me like a child ! |
| 7 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 8 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
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| 10 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 11 | When I did find her , she always managed to evade me like a will-o'-the-wisp , and then I would lose her again . |
| 12 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 13 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 14 | That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted . |
| 15 | ‘ Apart from an occasional tendency to treat me like the ayah she had in India as a child , she 's the perfect landlady . ’ |
| 16 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 17 | plagued me like a treacherous intimate |
| 18 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 19 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 20 | The shears are a Y that wants to be an X — he holds them like a water diviner , |
| 21 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 22 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 23 | It was a size too small , but finally the leather stretched so that it fit her like an elastic corset . |
| 24 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 25 | I do n't know him like the others . ’ |
| 26 | But his looks were only a part of it ; it was the man himself who drew her like a magnet , his mind , his character , his spirit , whatever made him him . |
| 27 | She lay still as he stroked her like a cat , and the love juice began to ooze from her to dampen the whole area of her crotch . |
| 28 | I would need to do more than just win this game , I would need to annihilate her like the cockerel ; more , I would need to break her completely . |
| 29 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 30 | With Forster supporting his legs , Delaney used the forward motion of the boat to haul Nell from the water , finally landing her like a slippery black sea creature . |