Example sentences of "[prep] him like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 2 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 3 | A great urgency gripped Gabriel , who unlatched the gate and ran off round the barn to where the moor streamed towards him like downhill water . |
| 4 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 5 | Robert took in the neatly combed hair , the frail shoulders , the exquisite cheekbones with the red blemish on one side , and the huge , sightless eyes that roamed the blackness below him like inverted searchlights , as if to soak up the shadows . |
| 6 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 7 | The sight of him like that gladdened my heart because I knew his news must be good . |
| 8 | I just grabbed hold of him like this and then |
| 9 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 10 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 11 | He squeezed Corbett 's arm , ‘ Take care , Master Clerk , ’ and continued on his way , his servant padding behind him like some silent dark shadow . |
| 12 | Müller had said to her once , ‘ How can you live with him like that ? |
| 13 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 14 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 15 | The game could be lost inside five minutes with him like this . |
| 16 | Running into him like that . |
| 17 | He wanted to feel warmed through to his spine , to have the comfort steal into him like strong ale . |
| 18 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 19 | ‘ Mrs Linton would be angry if she heard you talking about him like that , sir . |
| 20 | So we looked up to him like that . |
| 21 | And on this he turned from her and hurried through the store-room , leaving her trembling , and not a little , at her own audacity in daring to speak to him like that . |
| 22 | He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that . |
| 23 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
| 24 | She could n't she could n't er talk to him like that you know at all so she had to chastise us . |
| 25 | I think Jane , nobody , he 'd not had a woman stand up to him like that before |
| 26 | What happen was we was standing this jeweller 's , well really we 'd been there , she half the stuff for me and er other people and that , but erm , were standing there for ages , and she come , I 'm , I 'm sort of standing there like this up against the counter waiting to be served , suppose to be coming back right , stood right on the foot , it hurt , but I thought ok it 's a busy shop he wo n't so I 'd turned around , sort of he was there , so I sort of went to him like that and he was looked at me and fucking looked back , so I said are you gon na apologise then , getting right fucking pissed off cos I about three o'clock that day , hang over and being dragged up and down the town all fucking day ai n't my idea of fun you know , ri right in a bad mood anyway , and he said no in a real fucking why do n't you try and make me sort of attitude , so I 'm just about to fucking say something to me , like , how out the shop and everything , and she said what 's the fuck , what 's the matter with you then ? |
| 27 | Do n't speak to him like that . |
| 28 | So he 's got his nose to him like that and he says two so Robert Lindsay says to him free ! |
| 29 | And Mum 's going , do n't talk to him like that , and I 'm going , they 're driving me mad ! |
| 30 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |