Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Windows opened ; grocers ran to the doors of their shops ; customers stopped discussing bacon and turned ; our teachers wobbled on their bicycles as the noise buffeted them like a violent squall ; and boys sprinted to the school gates as they came out of the building , though many others , cool boys , shrugged or turned away in disgust , gobbing , cursing and scuffling their feet . |
| 2 | Eventually he released her with what appeared to be reluctance , which was strange , she thought , because she would have expected a man with his inhibitions about women to have just brushed her mouth briefly and then dropped her like a glowing ember . |
| 3 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In these conditions , the type of homosexuality that is mediated through pop music can only go just so far : in a perfect paradigm , Frankie Goes to Hollywood exploited the gay image of lead singers Paul Rutherford and Holly Johnson — for ‘ Relax ’ — and then dropped it like a hot potato as soon as another marketing device — this time , nuclear war became available for ‘ Two Tribes ’ . |
| 6 | Charging pensioners and children for medical prescriptions picked that one up and dropped it like a hot potato and charging for hospital treatment and why so why not do a U-turn on on this one ? |
| 7 | ‘ Said you commanded it like a true Englishman , sir , and fought like a Roman . |
| 8 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 9 | She faced him like a small fury , hands on slender hips , breasts heaving with every laboured breath . |
| 10 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 11 | She patted his lapel , straightening the flower , and kissed him like a little girl . |
| 12 | The fried brains , the sun-bleached looks , the tie-dyed duds , the slurred intonation , the language — Spicoli walked it like an entire demographic talked it : incomprehensibly . |
| 13 | It was confusing : such self-attention repelled me , and yet it represented a world of sensuality , of smell and touch , of indulgence and feeling , which aroused me like an unexpected caress as I undressed , lit the candles and got into the bath in this room of Eva 's . |
| 14 | This hit them like a communal heart-attack . |
| 15 | All the same he watched them like a cold-eyed hawk , and Maggie knew they must not put one foot wrong , favour or not . |
| 16 | The sharp pang of disappointment seared her like a physical pain . |
| 17 | The steam hit her like a white-hot slap . |
| 18 | His words hit her like a sudden icy shower , and her self-control snapped at last . |
| 19 | The words were tenderly spoken , yet they hit her like a tidal wave of icy-cold water , instantly extinguishing the flames of passion curling inside her , bringing her to horrified realisation of just what she was doing . |
| 20 | Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain . |
| 21 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 22 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 23 | Emotion stabbed her like a physical pain . |
| 24 | ‘ You rode him like a real jockey , ’ Nails said . |
| 25 | He caught them and tried to hold her still but she fought him like a spitting cat . |
| 26 | He clutched me like a terrified child waking from a nightmare . |
| 27 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 28 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 29 | He treated her like an incompetent subaltern . |
| 30 | 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 . |