Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crept through it like a cat , keeping to the shadows , avoiding anybody who might ask what her business was in this place . |
| 2 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 3 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 4 | Anyway treating it with the respect that any fish of unknown toothy potential deserves I knelt across it like a pike and proceeded to unhook it with Rick 's help . |
| 5 | Raindrops hit the surface of the road and danced upon it like spinning coins . |
| 6 | It was on the mantelpiece , as before , and its light flowed round it like water . |
| 7 | He exploited it where he found it ; he fed off it like a predator . |
| 8 | It was as great as an army , they said , and Rime Giants walked with it like shepherds . |
| 9 | I went to the very edge and walked along it like a tightrope . |
| 10 | Beyond , the river was a polished blue and the feluccas glided across it like pink-winged swans . |
| 11 | Black lichen clung to it like rind . |
| 12 | Erm erm they just went through it like that and then he gave her instructions on how to fly it as well , how to throw it |
| 13 | Their advertising was persuasive and their prices attractive , on the surface , so I fell for it like so many others . |
| 14 | Oh she says , well I 'm sorry Mr , I never thought about it like that , you see . |
| 15 | I never really thought of it like that . |
| 16 | ‘ I never thought of it like that , ’ said the imp . |
| 17 | Of its own volition hers went into it like a homing pigeon while her mind was still saying , ‘ No way , signore . ’ |
| 18 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 19 | He took to it like the proverbial fish to water . |
| 20 | I produced some option plans and they took to it like a duck takes to water . ’ |
| 21 | He took to it like a natural . |
| 22 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 23 | Eva took to it like a duck to water . |
| 24 | Initially the townspeople were sceptical , but once the new water had tickled their tastebuds they took to it like the proverbial duck . |
| 25 | Back again to the fundamental question of whether or not he was idle , he worried at it like a terrier , then laid down a challenge . |
| 26 | We had just cleared a jungle overhang , and slipped beneath it like a snail under a mushroom , when we awakened an enormous colony of giant fruit bats — the " flying foxes " with a wingspan of over three feet . |
| 27 | At dawn he walked again , and coming to a boating lake he drank from it like a horse , and filled his rubber bag . |
| 28 | Then at the crest of each polished wave , the blackness broke for a moment into the dark green of very deep water , and the sun shimmered in it like light varnished over . |
| 29 | so we fussed around it like flies round shite |
| 30 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |