Example sentences of "her [adv prt] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 2 | She 'd even given her a bed in her own place , brought her in like a waif from the streets in a gesture of stern and unsentimental charity . |
| 3 | Inside her , there was a small life forming , something precious and wonderful ; but there was also a deadness in her , weighing her down like a physical burden , a burden that grew harder to bear with every passing day . |
| 4 | She followed him slowly up the stairs , and her heart dragged her down like a leaden weight . |
| 5 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 6 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 7 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |
| 8 | Matted black hair covered her back like a shawl . |
| 9 | Coffee knocked her out like a blow on the head . |
| 10 | He got up , lifted her and carried her back to the bedroom despite her threats to do him a fatal injury if he did n't stop carting her about like a sack of old cabbages . |