Example sentences of "like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads at first sight like a selfless Magna Carta for the wild — until you begin to glimpse ( as in that ancient charter ) the barons ' hidden agenda . |
| 2 | A badly-balanced packet of tapioca crashed from shelf to floor and burst open like a ripe seed-pod . |
| 3 | The wind threatened to pluck him like a ripe orange off a tree . |
| 4 | He knew that in this berserk state those horns could open him up like a ripe melon . |
| 5 | He 's dropped like a ripe plum into your hand and you fail to recognize the possibilities . |
| 6 | And his face like a ripe damson . ’ |
| 7 | He would be seeing Caterina again , with her sweet face like a ripe apricot and her almond eyes , and he laughed when he remembered her childish stumblings as she tried to repeat the message to the letter . |
| 8 | I went on being sick , my stomach starting to hurt badly now ; my eyes were full of tears , my nose was running and my whole head felt like a ripe tomato , ready to burst . |
| 9 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 10 | What is not at all clear is whether one highly visible target — incineration — is anything like a major ingredient in the pollution cocktail , even at Pontypool . |
| 11 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 12 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 13 | In the late 1970s and early 1980s , the home computer boom looked like a major consumer success in the making . |
| 14 | Er but in actual fact , it 's like a major thing here , but he did very well . |
| 15 | And apparently it 's becoming very , you know , like a major major |
| 16 | Like a melancholy transmigrated bus-conductor . |
| 17 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 18 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 19 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 20 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 21 | THE surface of the tongue , magnified above , is like a deep pile carpet , trapping halitosis-causing bacteria . |
| 22 | Those who , like Iris Murdoch , speak of a ‘ selfless attention ’ to others as a supreme mark of virtue — hard to achieve and harder still , as a duty , to discount — surely imply something like a deep security of inner being . |
| 23 | There was silence then , like a deep gasp . |
| 24 | There 's a half-open hatch there leading into what looks like a deep , oddly cube-shaped cupboard ; it 's a dumb waiter . |
| 25 | The pool filter usually looks like a deep tray . |
| 26 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 27 | And earth replies all night , like a deep drum . |
| 28 | She listened , still half drugged from sleep , straining her ears intently , a touch of uneasiness making her blood begin to pound like a deep sea-swell in her veins . |
| 29 | If subsequently a critical incident happens which is pertinent to the individual 's particular dysfunctional assumption , then , rather like a key fitting into a lock , the dysfunctional assumptions are activated . |
| 30 | The protein part of the LDL reacts with another protein in the membrane of the tissue , where the cholesterol is to be off-loaded , rather like a key fitting into a lock . |