Example sentences of "[vb pp] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse news for complacent Germans is that Chancellor Helmut Kohl told parliament yesterday that Germany must overhaul its social , economic and educational systems if it is to remain a leading industrial power : Germany has the shortest working week , the oldest students and the youngest pensioners among industrial countries , and that this undermines competitiveness — ‘ a successful industrial nation , a nation with a future , can not be organised like a collective amusement park . ’ |
| 2 | The earth cracked like a shattered windscreen . |
| 3 | The voice cracked like a whip now , and the woman jumped . |
| 4 | His voice cracked like a whip . |
| 5 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 6 | His apartment was decorated like a hunting lodge . |
| 7 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 8 | Trapped like a guilty thing between them , Frankie lowered his head and took another bite from his worm-cake . |
| 9 | Nicholas was standing so still that the thick painted glass struck motionless light from his chain , and his face was glazed like a jug with mixed colours . |
| 10 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 11 | He slammed down the phone before Meyer could reply , stared across his desk at Gareth Morgan , perched like a large evil gnome on the edge of his chair , cuddling a glass of Scotch . |
| 12 | A Baluchistan gardener was working there , his voluminous turban perched like a cushion on top of his head , his baggy cotton ‘ jodhpurs ’ tan with dust . |
| 13 | We passed a small public garden with tiny , stunted trees ; through an arch , the road wound upwards to the hotel , perched like a toy on medieval ramparts . |
| 14 | Pascoe went over to where she was sitting , perched like a nervous bride on the edge of the bed , and kissed her gently on the lips . |
| 15 | For a moment , he took the scope back to the child perched like an Aunt Sally , then again to the horseman , who was coming directly towards the gun . |
| 16 | Boswell : ‘ One of them was frothed like a syllabub . |
| 17 | One country is full of people , people seen objectively and people seen subjectively , people in relation to myself , where the image is vivid , where the music is loud , sometimes overwhelmingly loud , and where the vision is nearly always distorted like a face in the back of a spoon … |
| 18 | Back in the kitchen , Carolyn gave Annie a saucer of currants to eat ( she ate them so beautifully , one by one , held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger , her other fingers cocked like a tea-sipping lady ) and carried on with the food . |
| 19 | Her stomach clenched like a fist , but there was nothing in there to come up . |
| 20 | Its clapper clenched like a boxing glove |
| 21 | Shiona 's stomach clenched like a fist within her . |
| 22 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 23 | A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue . |
| 24 | " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude . |
| 25 | Thunder detonated like an underground bomb . |
| 26 | The new railways ‘ slashed like a knife through the delicate tissues of a settled rural civilization . |
| 27 | She is wrinkled like a very new flower , |
| 28 | The three ages of woman , Seumas Ban thought , greeting them in the hall ; the plump young mistress , her harsh-boned mother , and old Bridhe , softly wrinkled like an old pear . |
| 29 | Hanged like a chicken by his neck , in town . ’ |
| 30 | Inside , the entrance hall was designed like a grand salon of a Renaissance palace , highly decorated , with Corinthian pilasters rising to a series of cornices surrounding a painted ceiling . |