Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And suddenly he took the rumours and put them on like a coat . |
| 2 | And how they used to They used to put them on like a You know what these two-wheeled barrows like they put the sacks on , do n't you ? |
| 3 | They broke them in like a horse , but you could n't get their necks like a horse . |
| 4 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 5 | As we parted , we could hear our man force-feeding his companions their scotch eggs , hurrying them along like a rowing cox . |
| 6 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 7 | ‘ Take me out and shoot me down like a dog , old buddy , I was forgetting . |
| 8 | The wheelbarrow seemed to want to shake me off like a steer at a rodeo . |
| 9 | I suppose that the ‘ great bloke ’ who lives next door … the dearest friend … is used to all that … hands you on like a bloody parcel at the end of the evening . ’ |
| 10 | He also scared the daylights out of us when he said : ‘ If you put down anything I do n't like , I 'll hunt you down like a shit-house rat ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ If you do , ’ he said softly , leaning towards her , ‘ we 'll slice you up like a joint of meat . ’ |
| 12 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
| 13 | The centre of town seemed to draw them back like a magnet . |
| 14 | and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in . |
| 15 | He was playing with her emotions , stringing them out like a taut band that would snap at the slightest pressure . |
| 16 | ‘ You can keep them … in exchange , ’ she said slowly , holding them out like a magician would . |
| 17 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 18 | do you urge him on like a cox ? |
| 19 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 20 | Mostly the waiter would go along with this , sensing that Oliver was one of those customers who did not , for all their enquiries , actually want any advice , and it was just a question of slowly reeling him in like a fish . |
| 21 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 22 | She 'd even given her a bed in her own place , brought her in like a waif from the streets in a gesture of stern and unsentimental charity . |
| 23 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 24 | She followed him slowly up the stairs , and her heart dragged her down like a leaden weight . |
| 25 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 26 | They rang room service , then she had to push him off like a young puppy . |
| 27 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 28 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 29 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 30 | ‘ And when he attacked you , you picked him up like a baby in front of all those people , ’ Doone said . |