Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ravished her like a lion , thrusting into her , his lips drawing out her life . |
| 2 | She lay still as he stroked her like a cat , and the love juice began to ooze from her to dampen the whole area of her crotch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 5 | He protected her like a lover , shielding her from curious eyes as they climbed the steep steps of the Rialto bridge with its shops on either side . |
| 6 | He loved her like a woman and he ran his hands lightly over her as if she would respond to his touch . |
| 7 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 8 | Again , he was deeply drawn to it , he loved it like a woman and wore it at his side . |
| 9 | And as the half-dozen lengthened into a line , he watched them like a file of horsemen on a hanging tapestry , each separate , and the last flagging . |
| 10 | All the same he watched them like a cold-eyed hawk , and Maggie knew they must not put one foot wrong , favour or not . |
| 11 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 12 | And he took it like a hero . ’ |
| 13 | And he treated me like a lady , too , not a shop-girl . |
| 14 | But he treated me like a little girl ; part of his training , I suppose . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He wore it like a halo . ’ |
| 16 | He wore it like a sommelier 's key , an order of merit or a symbol of kingship . |
| 17 | Partly it resulted from a preference in his subject-matter for concrete cultural and social detail over Adorno 's tendency towards abstraction of social process : for instance , he offered something like a phenomenology of the ‘ shocks ’ inherent in modern city life ; he discussed actual and potential production practices within modern media , derived from his enthusiasm for Brecht 's ‘ epic theatre ’ ; he focused less on the totalities of aesthetic form than on the fluidities of technique , the conditions of production , and the variable nature of reception . |
| 18 | He clutched me like a terrified child waking from a nightmare . |
| 19 | He growled it like a bear , and grinned like a shark . |
| 20 | He flapped it like a galosh . |
| 21 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 22 | He lectured me like a schoolmaster on the difference between saisir and s'en saisir . |
| 23 | to have her hair done , she brings her boy friend with her and , another neighbour always drops in to have a chat with his wife on a Friday evening , she stops about an hour , then his son brings his girl friend , so he said its like a mad house |
| 24 | His eyes glassy with boredom , he greeted me like a drowning man clutching at a lifebelt . |
| 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 . |
| 26 | While others were being lionised he conducted himself like a lamb or even a mouse . |