Example sentences of "like an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like an overworked slave , their usefulness has been exhausted . |
| 2 | Flat-chested , narrow-hipped , her fair hair sleek from swimming , she looked like an impish boy . |
| 3 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 4 | By the evening the French , who lacked archers , had been defeated by an army which , although numerically inferior , had once again ( as at Crécy ) enjoyed a sound defensive position and what seemed like an unbeatable combination of longbowmen and dismounted men-at-arms . |
| 5 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 6 | And I say ‘ No ’ like an obedient husband , and chase her up the stairs . |
| 7 | Did he really expect her to trot right on after him — like an obedient dog or something ? |
| 8 | He glanced quickly at her , his eyes darkening when she merely nodded like an obedient puppet . |
| 9 | He was not exactly ill-mannered , Sara decided , but more like an inquisitive child . |
| 10 | The carpet itself , old and threadbare with strange geometric patterns on it ( like the flying carpet in one of her childhood story books ) floated like an uneven raft on the knobbly floorboards , which it was too small to cover . |
| 11 | The Government 's policy is like an ailing comedy , carry on , except it 's carry on regardless of professional and public opinion . |
| 12 | Yah , like an ailing petro dollar . |
| 13 | KENNETH BAKER 'S brave vision of Agincourt is each day looking more like an avant-garde film version of the Little Big Horn . |
| 14 | They went through him and out the other side , and he felt the frost wither his insides , like an early runner bean . |
| 15 | In form the Song of Roland is like a succession of vivid , jerky photographs , like an early motion picture ; it is as though the author had set out to describe something similar to the Bayeux Tapestry , depicting the tragedy , not of Harold , but of Roland . |
| 16 | I 've got a Small Stone phaser , a really old silver-coloured Big Muff fuzzbox , and a truly weird thing called The Zipper , which is like an early touch-wah . |
| 17 | And like an early warning system , they 're the first to reveal whether you possess the freshness of youth or whether you are reflecting fatigue or the signs of ageing . |
| 18 | The north wind gave the day a restless feeling , and the journey stretched before us like an early map whose faint features were pleasingly unreliable . |
| 19 | A yellow butterfly loped by with its strange broken flight , like an early film . |
| 20 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 21 | She did n't like being made to feel like an underage teenager who could n't control her emotions . |
| 22 | Its pleasing shape — like an almond-stone sliced open — the cliffs of wall to the south , the serenity of the lake , the promise of richness in the meadows beyond the lake , moved him with a mysterious sense of homecoming based on an unmistakable sensation of security . |
| 23 | Now stop behaving like an arch temptress and let us go to table . ’ |
| 24 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 25 | Painting is popular for creating simple images because the mouse is used like a brush to colour areas and to create the effect of texture , like an impressionist painting , for instance . |
| 26 | ‘ Done this place up like an Egyptian brothel , have n't they ? ’ |
| 27 | She looked like an Egyptian mummy in boots , but it was a good picture of her rescuer . |
| 28 | Er if you read the accounts of the Ark it looks very like an Egyptian sarcophagus . |
| 29 | Randy Mueller was darting from one Vice President to another like an agitated blue-bottle . |
| 30 | It is like an endless , exhausting game of tennis , deuce after deuce . |