Example sentences of "her like [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , the benison of it , she thought , for she seemed to need comfort now , not only because she was tired after the journey and far away from John , but because she had admitted to herself that she loved him , had let her love sweep over her like a kind of illness , ‘ giving in ’ to flu , conscious only of the present moment . |
| 2 | The three youths waited , debating within themselves whether honour had been satisfied as he took his attention from them and returned it to Marion ; and suddenly , as his eyes burned into her like a couple of lasers , it was as if the two of them stood alone and everything else was just background . |
| 3 | It was as if some gigantic cork was being used to plug her like a bottle of rare wine . |
| 4 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 5 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 6 | Only if you do n't mind me sayin' so , it 'll be best if you do n't treat her like a private in the Army . ’ |
| 7 | The gibe assailed her like a blow to the pit of the stomach . |
| 8 | It would be far easier than if he was just going to stand over her like a portent of doom with that horrible expression on his face . |
| 9 | The lurking menace of those few sinister lines hung over her like a sentence of doom , an ominous harbinger of death and destruction . |
| 10 | But the meanings of the words seemed to dart away from her like a shoal of minnows as she advanced upon them , and she felt more uneasy still . |
| 11 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |
| 12 | White peace descended and surrounded her like a tent of cool white gauze . |
| 13 | But someone had his weight firmly pressed into the small of her back , pinning her like a butterfly in a case . |
| 14 | We agreed that a hospital was very much like a ship , and being under fire had made her like a man of war . |
| 15 | Mrs Roberts advised her to mend her temper before her daddy came home , and asked what Parr would think if he caught her like a toddler in a tantrum . |
| 16 | Suddenly in that tremulous silence the French voices had left , a fragment of the buried past rose in her like a wave of nausea . |
| 17 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 18 | The other three turned their eyes on her like a trio of hanging judges . |
| 19 | She sat very still for a moment , the room revolving around her like a carousel as the pain in her head hammered to a crescendo then receded again to a just bearable throb . |
| 20 | Having seized and anaesthetised one , she does not withdraw her sting but flies back to her burrow with the fly still impaled behind her like a sausage on a stick . |
| 21 | Her mother held her at arm 's length and examined her like a piece of merchandise , turning her this way and that , searching for concealed flaws . |
| 22 | With the command he grasped Jess 's arm and hauled her to her feet , then shook her like a piece of crumpled linen , both of them swaying on the edge of the hatchway . |
| 23 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 24 | I carry her like a baby in my arms . |
| 25 | Scarlet felt foolish and rather jealous : she knew that if she so much as failed to pay a parking ticket , the full force of the law would be upon her like a ton of bricks . |
| 26 | She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks . |
| 27 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 28 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 29 | She shook her hips , and the flimsy garment fell from her like a leaf from a tree , revealing her glorious nudity . |
| 30 | And as she fell she sensed him plunge to meet her like a meteor on fire , heard the sound he made against her sundered throat . |