Example sentences of "him like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anger could sweep across him like a storm cloud in fast motion and burst all about him in a fury of violently well-picked epithets . |
| 2 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 3 | This woman of twenty spoke to him like a mentor , like a sage . |
| 4 | The fellow carried his failure before him like a monstrance . |
| 5 | She should go back to her own bed and not risk either of them getting into more trouble , but he liked having the silly little thing cuddled up to him like a rabbit . |
| 6 | She wrapped herself around him like a clam in formation , her body one big muscle , straining . |
| 7 | He 'd gathered his life around him like a cloak in which there was only room enough for one . |
| 8 | He would have escorted her back to the Old Rectory and then , a minor social obligation performed , turned with relief to walk alone to the abbey , drawing his solitude around him like a cloak . |
| 9 | Next came the rinsing , then the part he liked best of all … standing naked before the warm fire , while his mammy dried him with the soft towel that wrapped round him like a cloak . |
| 10 | ‘ You must fight him like a gentleman , without anyone to help you ! ’ she told her husband . |
| 11 | The KGB will be onto him like a shit . ’ |
| 12 | He hears the hoofbeats approaching , and raises his eyes , half-expecting to see the exterminating angel , riding towards him like a conqueror . |
| 13 | Six years on , the job almost seems to fit him like a glove . |
| 14 | But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove . |
| 15 | They shouted obscene greetings to him , treating him like a commissionaire , or a bar man . |
| 16 | When Appio did not listen to her she would get angry , lift him like a feather and set him on top of a chest of drawers . |
| 17 | The nauseating sound of breaking bone was immediately followed by a crash as another blow to the side of the head dropped him like a stone . |
| 18 | Burton arrived at the first rehearsal word-perfect and with the part already sewn on him like a skin . |
| 19 | Except on that one occasion when she lost her temper and shouted at him like a fishwife in front of her husband . |
| 20 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 21 | But , as he rode , a terrible curiosity began to rise up in him and prick him like a gimlet . |
| 22 | They taunted him like a rope dangling just out of reach . |
| 23 | A sigh went through him like a wave . |
| 24 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 25 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 26 | His small , glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit . |
| 27 | After the darkness and coolness the light and heat struck him like a blow . |
| 28 | Defeat entered him like a heart attack , stunning the centre of his system . |
| 29 | His hair was trailing behind him like a veil and Mike , the bass , observed that he looked as though he was trawling for mackerel ; and as he turned , Colin , the drummer , said : ‘ Bugger me ! |
| 30 | The walls closed on him like a vice . |