Example sentences of "[vb past] like [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I think I mentioned like friends , family er brothers , sisters |
| 2 | The artillery sank like stones , dragging their hysterical teams into threshing , bubbling whirlpools , which became calm as their struggles ceased . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were the right age , anyway , and they moved like athletes . |
| 5 | The white blades rose and trembled like wings over the water , dipped , and rose again , scattering drops of emerald . |
| 6 | The old Theatre Royal in Dunlop Street soon followed , and it seemed that a new age had been ushered in as the gas light glinted on the crystal chandeliers and the illuminati of Glasgow clustered like moths about a bundle of bunsen-burners . |
| 7 | Oh yes , of course , these mostly ill-educated people would be given full instruction on how to regulate the dome environments , how to manage the delicate hydroponics farms clustered like eggs round the city skirts . |
| 8 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 9 | Ronni turned away in confusion as Guido simply went on smiling , bobbing up and down unrepentantly in the water , his dark hair plastered like strands of silk to his forehead , quite obviously thoroughly enjoying her confusion . |
| 10 | The head , which he judged to weigh just over two pounds , was blackened on one side with congealed blood from which one or two coarse grey hairs sprouted like whiskers . |
| 11 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 12 | Two gold bears came down and swam like men |
| 13 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 14 | They walked on all fours , preferred a diet of raw meat , they howled like wolves and lacked any form of speech . |
| 15 | Its Chapter House was like a Board Room , where the abbots presided like chairmen of the Board , with the profit motive high on the agenda . |
| 16 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 17 | silence that rose like walls around her . |
| 18 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 19 | They wore immaculate clothes , regarded themselves as an élite and behaved like gods . |
| 20 | " They behaved like imbeciles " , he dismissively remarked on 30 September . |
| 21 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 22 | We behaved like animals . ’ |
| 23 | Sgt Williams told a custody officer ’ They behaved like animals , they were treated like animals . |
| 24 | ‘ ’ You behaved like savages , some of you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We played like schoolgirls . ’ |
| 26 | In general the years from 1793 to 1815 do not seem to have been particularly bad in real-wage experience for the Cornish miners , though they suffered like others from the famine price levels of 1795 , 1801 and 1812 , in each of which crises they rioted . |
| 27 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 28 | They came like flies to honey , not the heedless junior element , either , but a knot of budding sophisticates in their teens , led by a tall , slim sixteen-year-old on whose walk , manner and style all the rest appeared to be modelling themselves . |
| 29 | ‘ Schnell , bitte ’ Lefevre 's injunction , on the other hand , would have been unnecessary in the French capital , where one and all drove like madmen . |
| 30 | When Jed opened the wardrobe , the empty hangers jangled like wind-chimes . |