Example sentences of "[vb base] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | either we want like a lot of money , |
| 2 | I love beautiful lines , clothes that fit the body , and swing with the body , move , you know , but fit like a glove . |
| 3 | Ben saw Rosten 's body tauten like a compressed coil . |
| 4 | Before any girls get excited at the prospect of all these crotch-obsessed men packing out Glencoe bars , and rush off to join a climbing club , I should point out they also smell like a circus tarpaulin and regard ten pints of Guinness as an aperitif . |
| 5 | NeTpower machines are meant to look , feel and smell like a PC . |
| 6 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 7 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 8 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 9 | Smell like a bloody brewery . |
| 10 | I say like a fool . |
| 11 | I was sep separate and apart from that , they would have to have a operating room and a dispensary there , you see that 's what they would have to have , I mean , if there gon na have P D S A premises , this is what you 've got to have , cos very often the animal has to be put under and all sorts of things , you know what I mean , it would n't be just an office with say like a physician and a tenants , it would be a case of a , a surgery and things in that nature which would be required by , er quite a number of animals . |
| 12 | Hosanna had retired to the bathroom and was sitting on the windowsill , squat like a buddha , gazing out into the night . |
| 13 | Peaks that on one day will glitter like jewels against the sky , on others appear like a strange mirage , then vanish at the whim of scudding clouds . |
| 14 | Canny and careful , the Qataris had watched Abu Dhabi grow like a hot-house flower , but decided themselves to follow the path of the tortoise . |
| 15 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
| 16 | till he cry like a candle |
| 17 | She gives a brief , cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes , and sinks her teeth into my shoulder . |
| 18 | Instinct was telling her to collapse against the nearest tree and cry like a baby , but instinct could go and chase itself . |
| 19 | Fly like a virgin ( pilot that is ) |
| 20 | ‘ Walk on the ceiling , or fly like a bird ? ’ |
| 21 | Offpiste spring snow is easy to ski and smooth so concentrate on regular breathing ( in as you start the turn , out as you complete it ) , think ‘ light ’ and fly like a bird . |
| 22 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 23 | ‘ I sleep like a baby . ’ |
| 24 | Tonight I shall have a few pints , take Jenny out to dinner , probably attack a nice bottle of claret , and sleep like a stone . |
| 25 | I sleep like a log — a clear conscience . ’ |
| 26 | I sleep like a log and never get indigestion . |
| 27 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 28 | this is not to suggest that I function like a computer ( which would be anathema to me ) , for there is always something to react to , something new to learn , or to improve . |
| 29 | ( Ironic , you smoke like a chimney and the lungs are O.K. ) |
| 30 | For a brief moment , the terrible Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher made the lake boil and smoke like a volcano , then the fire went out and the awesome beast disappeared under the waves . |