Example sentences of "[verb] him like [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 2 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 3 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 4 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 5 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 6 | What had made him like this ? she pondered . |
| 7 | It was really pathetic , meeting him like that in the flower shop . |
| 8 | ‘ You should be ashamed of yourself , ’ she said to Pooley , ‘ aiding and abetting him like this . |
| 9 | She did n't often see him like that . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't see him like this , Liddy ! ’ said Bathsheba , looking in horror at her dusty dress . |
| 11 | They 're not kissing each other , he goes like that , he put his arm round the other man and he kisses him like that . |
| 12 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 13 | They were in , aha , yeah , they were in bed , right , and this , look , in bed , listen to this , sound asleep it 's on the radio and news , they 're asleep in bed with two girls and the boys , the boy was in bed fast asleep and somebody come and touched him like that and when she woke up it was this , this the lad |
| 14 | Threatening him like that had most likely scared him off . |
| 15 | I 'd rather have him like this . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He does n't want the world to see him like this , ’ says Howard . |
| 17 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 18 | He would like Isobel and Dorothy to see him like this . |
| 19 | It hurt her to see him like this , resorting to holding her here to get revenge on Steve . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope Elizabeth does n't think we got him like that , ’ worried Betty . |
| 21 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 22 | Football crowds think that if you can treat an England player like that at Wembley , then they can all treat him like that on the league grounds . |
| 23 | Oh I bet she did , I bet she did n't treat him like that ! |
| 24 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 25 | But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare . |
| 26 | He was right , but she could n't leave him like this . |
| 27 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 28 | And he puts , he puts his arm round him and he goes like , he 's got his arm round him and squeezing him like that . |
| 29 | ‘ Kevin Vose was 130th in the national and to beat him like that is a dream for me . |
| 30 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |