Example sentences of "[verb] like [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaped and polished , they would wink like jewels . |
| 2 | Christine glared at her , the eyes smouldering like emeralds . |
| 3 | United responded like champions and laid seige to the Chelsea goal for the remainder of the game . |
| 4 | L. Lives Like Logs of Driftwood : This wants to be a long , very well written story . |
| 5 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 6 | You want us to work like dogs … |
| 7 | The blue grey mud banks glittered where wet from the tide , but lay dry and cracked like acres of crazy paving above the high water mark . |
| 8 | Polished linoleum , a shining , glass sea , with rugs scattered like islands . |
| 9 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 10 | Out on the ramp beneath the lights and the arrows of rain and the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts : fathers , mothers , children , the old , scattered like leaves in the wind . |
| 11 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 12 | That scattered like twigs |
| 13 | The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall , and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark . |
| 14 | The interiors of the cabs , which represent a kind of first-class , are decorated like seraglios with floral upholstery , tasselled curtains , quotations from the Koran and heavily retouched photographs of Sudanese pop singers . |
| 15 | I mean I think I mentioned like friends , family er brothers , sisters |
| 16 | Into this economic context , women with small children fit like pieces of Lego . |
| 17 | The artillery sank like stones , dragging their hysterical teams into threshing , bubbling whirlpools , which became calm as their struggles ceased . |
| 18 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 19 | Dr David Williams of the University of Liverpool argues that the real reason for the push to alternatives is that people will prefer a filling that looks like teeth . |
| 20 | Among the classic wines , the best buy looks like Clos Du Marquis , the second of the great St Julien cru classé Château Léoville Les Cases . |
| 21 | This sample looks like stripes because it includes at least two examples but this idea can be used between large areas of colour to merge the colour change edges . |
| 22 | looks like bricks , another one they can make it look like welsh slate and things like that |
| 23 | So on the bench here we have a a device on a a tripod , again , it has wheels on it where marked off in what looks like degrees . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks like flowers , ’ she said , ‘ like roses . ’ |
| 25 | It looks like flowers . |
| 26 | It looks like rocks uncovering , mangling their pallor . |
| 27 | It looks like scratchings from an old birds ' nest . |
| 28 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 29 | The men were dying like flies , of fever . |
| 30 | At Walvis Bay he survived a severe attack of dysentery , while his comrades ‘ were dying like flies ’ . |