Example sentences of "[adv prt] like some " in BNC.
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1 | She was so busy with the Maxim , however , that she failed to notice the door opening fully behind her , and Richmann stepping through like some black-cloaked angel of death , his shortened Winchester being raised into position . |
2 | The likes of ‘ Live Life Death Die ’ and ‘ Creatures Of Craze ’ do n't need standard lyrical formats — streams of juxtaposed words more than suffice , and the final title track is a knife-twisting attack that hits the music industry where it hurts , climaxing with an anguished ‘ I Am The Greatest ’ repeated over and over like some unrelenting battle cry . |
3 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
4 | ‘ For God 's sake stop pawing it over like some damn pawnbroker 's wife , ’ Lambert said . |
5 | God , we 've only just met and you 're coming on like some rampant nut-eater . |
6 | Do n't blow it all off like some nobody would . |
7 | For the merest instant , some final , irreducible unit of desire , he had glimpsed a feeling , an urge within himself he had not imagined himself capable of , but now this tiny , standard piece of information , these few letters , had switched his hopes off like some cheap light bulb . |
8 | He would not leave his quarters , holing up like some manic , wounded beast , pacing back and forth , drinking , pausing to spout unbelievably complex monologues on genetic theory , which to Zambia sounded more like the ravings of a demented priest . |
9 | The Def Leppard singer , at No 10 with Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad , admits : ‘ I could never get into a plane and smash things up like some stars do . |
10 | They lined up like some firing-squad as Messrs Shepherd and Palmer did their best to explain the situation , but only television slo-mo replays would have convinced the sternest of the doubters . |
11 | An early-morning mist hung over Branchester , the cathedral rising up like some ghostly fairy-tale palace while cobwebs glistened on iron railings and moisture dripped from the branches of the lime trees that fringed the roads . |
12 | We almost convince ourselves that the music is created not by the orchestra but by the tip of the baton itself , rich sounds oozing out like some exotic genie . |
13 | Although its walls had been painted a self-effacing grey , it still stood out like some exotic folly among the neighbouring tenement houses . |
14 | Moodie may have been a priest but in death his body had been laid out like some broken toy to lie on a shelf , the grimacing features half-hidden by a dirty cloth ; the eyes still open , sightless and empty . |
15 | ‘ I do n't make trouble , it just follows me around like some dog in the street . ’ |
16 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
17 | All you did was sit round like some old colonel in an Agatha Christie book , bellowing about the country going to the dogs . |