Example sentences of "[noun] like water " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was desperation in Lou 's eyes and she clutched at Melissa 's arm while words poured from her mouth like water from an overflowing vessel . |
| 2 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |
| 3 | What is curious about Carnot 's work was that it was done using the obsolescent theory that heat was a weightless fluid , driving a steam-engine like water driving a water-wheel . |
| 4 | Lucy threw down three glasses in succession like water in the broiling sun . |
| 5 | It is as if the emotions form the landscape of the mind like water forms the valleys by long erosion . |
| 6 | He saw his own words sink deep into her mind like water into a secret thirst ; but her face was motionless and indifferent . |
| 7 | The fat was still warm in the pan so that it soaked into the bread like water into a sponge . |
| 8 | ‘ Contrary to what your mother may have told you , the de Rochefort family is no longer a well from which you can draw money like water . ’ |
| 9 | He was kind of staggering , with one hand held to his temple , and from time to time making a noise like water running out of a bath . |
| 10 | But when we plunged our hands into them , the dust-filled light ran through our fingers like water . |
| 11 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 12 | People thought well what could be in space , they 'd tune the radio telescope and they found , rather intriguingly , there were molecules like water and ammonia and methane , just as they expected . |
| 13 | Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river . |
| 14 | Fishing cobles were scurrying about the Sound like water beetles , black dots on the deep blue . |
| 15 | Lots of drink — not spirits , old boy — nice healthy stuff like water and orange juice ! ’ |
| 16 | When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket . |
| 17 | And then after that erm I did er an eight day trek erm which was in the Anapurna region of the Himalayas and that again was sleeping in tents and we had sherpas , porters , to carry all our luggage apart from things like water that we carried in our day sacks and they carried four bags each on their backs and my bag weighed about thirty pounds . |
| 18 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 19 | The New Contemporaries exhibitors continued to plot this constellation , using mixed media primarily associated with mutability , with process : substances like water or pastry , hair or wax , sand and vegetables , oil and light and cloth , which imply change over time . |
| 20 | " I 'd be a bit of a knobbly mouthful , " I ventured , trying to keep things light , feeling even then that this talk was closing over my head like water and likely to drown me . |
| 21 | The cloud seems to spill from the City 's edge like water over a fall . |
| 22 | Ocarina is a little goose and plays music like water echoes |
| 23 | Feel that your quiet , heavy limbs are almost spreading out and sinking into the floor like water that has been spilled . |
| 24 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
| 25 | The pictures of the like of empty courtyards and brothel addresses ‘ have been likened to the scene of crime ’ and ‘ pumped the aura out of reality like water from a sinking ship ’ . |
| 26 | Fine rain was being whisked ova the town in little flurries like water from a sprinkler hose caught by the wind . |