Example sentences of "[adv] like [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saying that imagination is essential for effective RE is perhaps like pubs advertising good food . |
| 2 | Call a loud , clear , rather musical ‘ kew-kew-kew-kew-kew ’ , somewhat like calls of Nuthatch ( p 271 ) , Lesser Spotted Woodpecker or Kestrel ( p. 95 ) and other small birds of prey . |
| 3 | They are usually simple cap-shaped shells looking somewhat like limpets , but on their internal surfaces they carry a series of paired muscle impressions . |
| 4 | The wire hangers rang together like bells and kept it up for almost a minute . |
| 5 | There are born-again Christians at large in every field of music , even thrash metal , but disco and evangelical God bothering seem to go together like hassocks and cassocks . |
| 6 | When one kneels on the seat I see heels cracked like earth and , on some , toes that seem almost to be growing together like tubers . |
| 7 | It was untrue that passengers travelled packed together like cattle . |
| 8 | She sat her on a towel and they had a cup of tea , huddled together like conspirators on the edge of Carolyn 's bed . |
| 9 | Other kinds of bivalves have used their capacity for free movement to the utmost by becoming efficient swimmers , clapping their valves together like castanets to move through the sea to find new feeding grounds or to escape the threat of predators . |
| 10 | Her knees rattled together like castanets as he helped her down on to the jetty . |
| 11 | This position would be retained and they proceeded each to rest his chin on the other 's shoulder — heads nuzzled close together like horses lodged in affection — and then swing their arms in order to take a grip on the flattened back of their opponent . |
| 12 | Bachelors strung together like pegs on a line on lower panel . |
| 13 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 14 | Perhaps not — but the Japanese garden tradition , Koi , and the postage stamp British garden go together like sushi and saki suggests NIGEL FLASHMAN . |
| 15 | Then , as always , various ‘ catchphrases ’ were strung together like shells on a necklace to form a complete view that was repeated over and again and formed men 's attitudes . |
| 16 | The others laugh and they all roll together like puppies . |
| 17 | From the start , they had worked together like brothers , with respect and affection , and Coleman 's grief was in no way lightened by a suspicion that the killers might have fingered Asmar through him . |
| 18 | ‘ I love you ! ’ he said shakingly , and bent his dark head to kiss her , desire flaring between them , relief mingling sweetly with it , their mouths clinging and their arms round each other obsessively , twining together like bindweeds on that hot terrace with the scarlet bougainvillaea trailing down the dusty cliffs and the sea glittering turquoise beyond . |
| 19 | Marginal plants should be grouped together like plants in an herbaceous border , several of the same variety being accommodated in a single basket . |
| 20 | Some are solitary , and this one constructs a nest for its eggs and offspring by cutting away half-moon shaped pieces of leaf , carrying them away and sticking them together like bricks ! |
| 21 | Words in the 19th century were still viewed as individual items which could be stuck together like bricks to make up sentences . |
| 22 | The women had been crammed together like animals , she thought . |
| 23 | Bong off together like beads that have gotten loose of the string so , but Parkinson — did you meet him ? — he was , Parkinson was the guy who did the Rolling Stone typeface and he was here . |
| 24 | Mm , the visions that they had were not as reality they were only like visions they had |
| 25 | This is the place for lovers of stalagmites and stalactites , of which there are some noble specimens and which the guides , true to their kind , will insist on likening to some human or animal shape , as if it were wrong to allow rocks to look only like rocks . |
| 26 | Simplify the following expressions by Putting only like terms together . |
| 27 | Red-heads dive constantly like grebes , but have conspicuously whiter cheeks , and are also much whiter than other small diving ducks . |
| 28 | And his particular thing would be erm things especially like bananas and the erm barriers to trade when the E C becomes united . |
| 29 | Classes at Unipart do n't look much like lectures at the other established Universities in Oxford . |
| 30 | They do n't look much like delinquents on the run . |