Example sentences of "[vb past] her like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Clara , it was always painfully conspicuous , an indictment of a way of life ; she knew nothing of the history of slop basins , nor of the society that evolved them and their joyless name , but the sight of one affected her like some shameful family secret . |
| 2 | So one day , I got a newspaper , I rolled it up and I walloped her like mad . |
| 3 | They brushed her like strengthless and accusing hands . |
| 4 | ‘ The madam would have had me if I had n't escaped by telling her the lodger in the room next door to mine fancied her like crazy , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Then they hit her like two separate blows . |
| 6 | His words hit her like small , sharp knives and Jenna raised her hands to claw at him , hurting inside and wanting to hurt back . |
| 7 | The way her heart seemed to squeeze inside her chest , the way her pulses seemed to skip a beat whenever Roman watched her like that , was deeply disturbing . |
| 8 | His gaze pierced her like cold steel . |
| 9 | And you still treated her like that ? ’ |
| 10 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 11 | she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this |
| 12 | And he liked her like this , when she was rumpled with sleep and undefended by make-up . |
| 13 | He held her like this for a few seconds and then , suddenly , the oddly predatory look left his face and his hands dropped to his sides . |