Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack thought of his mother 's anguish and his stepfather 's injuries and anger rose in him like a demon . |
| 2 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 3 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 4 | He looked up at her , as she swooped towards him like a sparrow hawk . |
| 5 | It was late in the afternoon , during double English , that the answer came to him like a bolt out of the blue . |
| 6 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
| 7 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 8 | Gratification opened to him like a regained paradise . |
| 9 | The thing 's entrails writhed around him like the tentacles of a daemonic octopus . |
| 10 | Australia beckoned to him like an uncut diamond . |
| 11 | The significance dawned on him like a sword piercing his anger . |
| 12 | Lust went through him like a sudden scorch . |
| 13 | A sigh went through him like a wave . |
| 14 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 15 | Every one of the dead men ached in him like an amputation . |
| 16 | For a moment he did not know where he was : the darkness lay upon him like a leaden weight , crushing him as if he were under a ton of river-water . |
| 17 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 18 | The Princess was powerless ; when he beckoned to her , she went to him like a lamb . ’ |
| 19 | He repeated once more , for Theo 's benefit , his fateful words on that summer day : ‘ Kee , I love you as myself … ’ and her reply , ‘ No , never never ’ , which fell on him like a death sentence , ‘ and for the moment it absolutely crushed me to the ground ’ . |
| 20 | It felt to him like an hour before Nutty stopped Midnight again . |
| 21 | ‘ Talking about matters of import , ’ Riven said absently , though uneasiness buzzed at him like a fly . |
| 22 | Franks looked at him like a round-eyed baby . |
| 23 | The thin man niggled at him like a flea in the hide of a rhinoceros . |
| 24 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |
| 25 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 26 | This woman of twenty spoke to him like a mentor , like a sage . |
| 27 | She gave him a brief smile , and a thrill ran through him like a low current of electricity . |
| 28 | As he dressed for dinner in his room , Dorian remembered what he had seen and cold fear ran through him like a knife . |
| 29 | As the thought struck him he felt a sudden wild dizziness , and fatigue ran through him like an electrical surge . |
| 30 | Alice ran after him like the wind . |