Example sentences of "[verb] me like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel , Hazel thinks you should n't treat me like a child ! |
| 2 | ‘ My dear officers , ’ said a rather breathless but still well modulated voice , ‘ of what am I accused that you should treat me like the nucleus of a civil rights demonstration ? |
| 3 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 4 | You seemed to be drawing me like a magnet , and there was Claudine , anyway . ’ |
| 5 | When I did find her , she always managed to evade me like a will-o'-the-wisp , and then I would lose her again . |
| 6 | That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother used to treat me like a stranger , ’ he reflected . |
| 8 | But I will not be ordered this way and that , she said , I will do the work in my own time , as I choose , for my sister has no right to treat me like a maid , to give orders and expect me to run her errands . |
| 9 | ‘ Apart from an occasional tendency to treat me like the ayah she had in India as a child , she 's the perfect landlady . ’ |
| 10 | She strokes my hair and soothes me like a baby . |
| 11 | Your heart fits me like a glove . |
| 12 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 13 | The words cut me like a sword . |
| 14 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 15 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 16 | Still , I had an overseas news radio set and sometimes at dusk when I turned it on for the BBC overseas news , the light on its dial welcomed me like a beacon from home . |
| 17 | ‘ It will not happen again — the image of the club is important and I 'll just have to try and accept any punishment the FA give me like a man . |
| 18 | the water curved me like a lover |
| 19 | However , credit must also be given to Saya Yá2wshu ( Saya means teacher ) , the seconded catechist , who for my first year followed me like a shadow , to enlarge my vocabulary and lengthen my conversations and sermons . |
| 20 | And then , I liked having nice little teas served to me for a change ; to have Wilson taking care of me and treating me like a lady — because there was a little something between us . |
| 21 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 22 | ‘ I wish you 'd stop treating me like a child , Angharad , ’ she said irritably . |
| 23 | Stop treating me like a kid . ’ |
| 24 | During the filming of another sea-going saga , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 version ) , Charles Laughton upstaged Gable , who complained to director Frank Lloyd , ‘ Laughton 's treating me like an extra . |
| 25 | He says you can stop treating me like an invalid . ’ |
| 26 | And it hit me like a thunderbolt . |
| 27 | Inspiration hit me like a bolt from the blue on the way home . |
| 28 | Thirty years they 've trained me to give nothing away and you can still read me like a book . ’ |
| 29 | Sleep covered me like an eiderdown which some invisible nurse had picked up from the floor and put back on the bed . |
| 30 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |