Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 3 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 4 | Carolyn was ignoring her like a sulky child . |
| 5 | She was treating him like a little boy . |
| 6 | as if he was treating her like a child … |
| 7 | He was treating her like a cheap pick-up . |
| 8 | Clamping her mouth shut , she stormed after him , suddenly furious that everyone was treating her like a child . |
| 9 | Then there 's a fuzzy bit I ca n't remember — oh yes , it 's not a lake , it 's the sea , with tremendous waves , and I 'm still on my front looking downwards , but the people have disappeared , and the sea 's full of the furniture at Cal 's house — the grandfather clock that chimes every quarter hour , the gold velour sofa , all those tiny thimbles and china bells that her mum dusts every day of her life , even their bath and loo in trendy slate-blue — and everything is swirling round as if a great Sea God was stirring it like a pot full of stew . |
| 10 | So do I and I was just talking to her downstairs and I was asking her like the differences between here and the States , you know the boar cos she was in a boarding school before , and she was saying erm how you know just generally the people are nicer and the blokes talk to you not just because you 're cos they |
| 11 | He was playing her like an angler with a fish and knew that she would soon be netted . |
| 12 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 13 | A man of sophistication and wide experience , he recognised her lack of both and was teasing her like a cat playing with a mouse . |