Example sentences of "[prep] himself like " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too this gnawing of himself like a fox caught in a trap forced to bite off its leg and for pain , every few moments raising its face to howl at the sky . |
| 2 | He wrapped his arms round himself like a boy hugging a secret but he was so excited it came spilling out of him . |
| 3 | curled on himself like a wild creature , |
| 4 | Raskolnikov does n't put it to himself like that . |
| 5 | Sometimes he talks in a foreign language — you know , just to himself like . |
| 6 | Holden seemed particularly nervous , repeating his lines over and over to himself like a raw newcomer terribly afraid he might forget how to deliver when the time came . |
| 7 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |
| 8 | He stood in it , his clothes and skin steaming , dripping water into the urine-scented callbox , called her number , listened to it ring , called again , saying the numbers to himself like a chant , making sure his finger was in the right hole on the dial each time . |
| 9 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |