Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 2 | He thought to himself ‘ I do n't want him to see me like this ’ . |
| 3 | For years I allowed him to treat me like dirt . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't let him treat me like that . ’ |
| 5 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 6 | He told himself that the man was arrogant , self-satisfied , and smelled of after-shave stuff ; Helen was an idiot to let him pester her like this . |
| 7 | She was n't going to let him affect her like this — never again ! she told herself desperately , taking a deep breath as she tried to ignore her racing pulse . |
| 8 | Mad to let him kiss me like this . |
| 9 | He plays him like a harp . |
| 10 | ‘ He plays them like game fish . |
| 11 | He ravished her like a lion , thrusting into her , his lips drawing out her life . |
| 12 | How dared he treat her like this — flirting first with Stephanie Marsa , and then cynically switching to her ? |
| 13 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 14 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 15 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The shears are a Y that wants to be an X — he holds them like a water diviner , |
| 18 | He holds me like the devil himself . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 21 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 22 | Why was he hounding her like this ? |
| 23 | He bestrode me like some stalwart saint of old , defending my prone body with buckler and flaming sword . |
| 24 | They 're not kissing each other , he goes like that , he put his arm round the other man and he kisses him like that . |
| 25 | He showed he like democracy and civilisation by carrying the conch everywhere . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but will he see it like that ? ’ |
| 28 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 29 | Within the same week as this report of the M4 rape , the Sun ran the headlines M4 COPYCAT FIEND GRABS GIRL : he attacks her like car rapist . |
| 30 | He loved her like a woman and he ran his hands lightly over her as if she would respond to his touch . |