Example sentences of "[vb past] it like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 2 | Jessamyn slipped the barrel into her mouth , and sucked it like a lollipop , fluttering her eyelashes at Kenne . |
| 3 | Stephanie unwound it like a cocoon , stroked and spread its spiky boughs , spent time and effort stabilising it in a bucket of earth with the weight from the kitchen scales . |
| 4 | The bare road bisected it like a parting . |
| 5 | ‘ I shaped it like a teardrop . |
| 6 | Sentiment engulfed it like the sea . |
| 7 | Again , he was deeply drawn to it , he loved it like a woman and wore it at his side . |
| 8 | pulled it like a cracker . |
| 9 | Before Bull O'Malley could get a chance to reply , Father Devlin raised a conciliatory hand and waved it like a flag of truce . |
| 10 | Folly had to stifle the impression that he had conjured it by magic — or called it like a horse . |
| 11 | Mandeville chanted it like a child learning a rhyme . |
| 12 | He wore it like a sommelier 's key , an order of merit or a symbol of kingship . |
| 13 | ‘ He wore it like a halo . ’ |
| 14 | He made the flowers a cane and twirled it like a drum majorette . |
| 15 | They treated it like a war , and they were determined to win . |
| 16 | He growled it like a bear , and grinned like a shark . |
| 17 | And he took it like a hero . ’ |
| 18 | Her boss told Hilary : ‘ You took it like a man , although you 're the wrong shape . ’ |
| 19 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 20 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 21 | He flapped it like a galosh . |
| 22 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 23 | I had it like had it like a jab like a |
| 24 | Then he picked up a long poker from the fireplace and had it like a rifle when he played the tape again . |
| 25 | He held it like a sword , perhaps imagining the gutting and the killing he could perform with this weapon which had once been used to carve the image of a woman in the land . |