Example sentences of "[verb] he like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 2 | The young Heartfield ( who anglicised his name in a break with his German heritage in 1915 ) would have to be tied to the chair while his companions baited him like a caged animal . |
| 3 | She faced him like a small fury , hands on slender hips , breasts heaving with every laboured breath . |
| 4 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 5 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 6 | She patted his lapel , straightening the flower , and kissed him like a little girl . |
| 7 | The desire to capture had driven him like a wild man through the school yard , up the sidewalk , everywhere . |
| 8 | And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck . |
| 9 | You complain that your marriage is n't a partnership , yet when you are not tearing a strip off him ( as mothers tend to do to sons ) or winding him up ( as mates do ) you are treating him like a no-talent support act . |
| 10 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 11 | I would have him like a fucking Biafran . |
| 12 | But , far from being able to greet him like a young girl when he came , she 'd have a job to hide how decrepit she was . |
| 13 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 14 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 15 | ‘ You rode him like a real jockey , ’ Nails said . |
| 16 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 17 | But though Minton , in turn , often treated him like a mere house-boy , giving him money to go off and buy the food which he afterwards cooked , Ricky carried out his duties with considerable charm . |
| 18 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 19 | But to her surprise the patron and his very large , round-faced wife greeted him like a long-lost son . |
| 20 | Their silence gripped him like a huge fist squeezing out the truth . |
| 21 | Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way . |
| 22 | Both areas , breaking and mending , engrossed Dostoevsky from the time when the shared convict existence of prison snapped him like a dry biscuit yet also made him new , so that in the closing words of The House of the Dead , with the knocking off of his fetters , the narrator greets ‘ a new life , voskresenie from the dead ’ . |