Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want my home , she thought , and was appalled by her childishness ; but the tide of emotion was irresistible , surging through her like great waves . |
| 2 | I do n't think I could handle somebody living with me like that . |
| 3 | Extremely harmful it had been , meddling with him like that . |
| 4 | Martin held him at the knees always pushing inside him like warm water pouring in . |
| 5 | An ’ why 're you lookin' at me like that ? |
| 6 | What you all lookin' at me like that for ? ’ |
| 7 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 8 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 9 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 10 | She could still hear her mother 's voice saying , ‘ Do n't sit looking at me like that , child ; say something . ’ |
| 11 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 12 | ‘ That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now , ’ he said , ‘ and for your wickedness in hiding , and for looking at me like that , you rat ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Sikes , uneasy at the old man 's strange expression . |
| 14 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 15 | Why was she looking at me like that ? |
| 16 | ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ asked Leonora . |
| 17 | Impulsively she asked , ‘ Why are you looking at me like that ? ’ and immediately regretted having spoken her thoughts aloud . |
| 18 | Why are you looking at me like that ? |
| 19 | It 's no good coming over and looking at me like that Rick . |
| 20 | Stop looking at me like that . |
| 21 | Well I ca n't get asthma when he 's looking at me like that . |
| 22 | With Luke looking at her like that , a combination of desire and disgust hardening his features and his mouth somehow more richly sensual than it had looked before , Maria had no difficulty believing him . |
| 23 | She even had reservations about his admitted feelings about her — at least if he went on looking at her like that . |
| 24 | Why was he looking at her like that , with that little smile that suggested he knew something she did not ? |
| 25 | Why was Louise looking at her like that ? |
| 26 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 27 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 28 | An awful suspicion was growing in her like some bizarre fungus from a tiny spore . |
| 29 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ he enquired , obviously unhappy to have her looming over him like some avenging goddess . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |