Example sentences of "and he [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table . |
| 2 | And Derek was part of the , th you know , the , the party and he wore like Hush Puppy shoes |
| 3 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 4 | Hard fingers encircled his arm and haled him out of the room , and he went like one in a dream , unable to resist but ready for some treacherous pitfall to open under his feet at every step . |
| 5 | Samantha all it , Mau Maureen , Maureen 's said he was sitting there eating and he went like this . |
| 6 | He did so , and he looked like the questioner in the studio audience rather than the answerer . |
| 7 | He was a tall , thin man of about fifty and he looked like a bloodhound , even to the wet nose , and had a nauseating habit of drooling sentimentally about his wife to anyone who would listen . |
| 8 | His smile gave a beam to his plump face , and he looked like Mr Pickwick in the flesh . |
| 9 | I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] . |
| 10 | He stood there , the others making a semicircle in the room , and he looked like a criminal before his accusers . |
| 11 | Her husband , Bill Clough , seemed awkward and unsure of himself : his suit fitted badly , and he looked like a comic who has unwisely accepted a serious part in provincial rep . |
| 12 | er , there was a lad in a sketch with him , we saw the trailer and he looked like an older version of Macouly Maulkin , or whatever his name is , what 's his name ? |
| 13 | We saw him one week and he looked like blooming Julian Caesar |
| 14 | I said , yeah , it 's me , er my sister said that erm she feels a man in Olympus Sports , I said erm , on a poster playing basket ball and he looked like you . |
| 15 | He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like . |
| 16 | He knew the murderer now and he felt like hell . |
| 17 | A shudder passed through Antoine and he lay like one dead . |
| 18 | He , he , he leaped onto somebody in the goal mouth where the post was and i , he turned on a , off the other way in the post , and he landed like that and |
| 19 | I saw you with him … and he seemed like … well , like one of the inheritors of the earth . |
| 20 | I had heard his soundbite , and he sounded like a man who meant business . |
| 21 | And he said like |
| 22 | And he said er no , he said er I hope you can swim er , he said because they 're rather unstable and er and he said , now erm if we er bump into anything like erm a he he hesitated in his speech and he said like a log or a er er or alligator he said freeze ! |
| 23 | breathing in , and he smelt like a wet dog , drying . |
| 24 | He competed in the early rounds of the ASP contests , but ten to fifteen feet was a millpond for Bradshaw and he sank like a stone . |
| 25 | He only missed three greens out of the eighteen , and he putted like crazy . |
| 26 | Philip Snowden , who had been a harder-line pacifist during the war than the more pragmatic Macdonald , was now Labour 's Chancellor , and he stood like a rock against all attempts to introduce new economic thinking . |