Example sentences of "like a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 2 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 3 | You did n't have to be highly professional and experienced like a personnel manager has to be today . |
| 4 | Oh it 's a fill in , I thought that was sort of more like a personnel type phrase . |
| 5 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 6 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 7 | The man stands like a kouros , left foot forward , but differs from one not only in the calf and the arms raised to hold it , but in having a beard and a cloak . |
| 8 | I 'm expecting like a lights or something are flashing so I got the off the jet wash and I 'd just about got to the where I started again it 's gone bib bib bib bib bib is that it ? |
| 9 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 10 | A bit like a jewellers ’ shop . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ THE next person who says I look like a Blues Brother , gets it , ’ says Suggs while brandishing a brolly at the Madness reunion gig on Saturday . |
| 12 | It was like a drovers ' camp in front of Castle Menzies . |
| 13 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 14 | Another one rose , like a portcullis . |
| 15 | There were moments when it felt like a portcullis downward-slammed between herself and the human community . |
| 16 | Ditherers and mums-the-worders who 'd make even the fossilised Football Association Council look like a Brains Trust . |
| 17 | During the mid phases of running stride , the carbon plate contracts , just like a vaulters bent pole , to collect and store energy . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 19 | Four to follow in this year 's World Series RICK REUSCHEL ( Giants ) Age : 40 Position : Starting pitcher ( right-handed ) At 240lb and proportioned like a darts player , ‘ Big Daddy ’ is proof that you do n't need to be a super-athlete to succeed . |
| 20 | There was n't much of an airport : just a largish shed with a corrugated iron roof , open at the sides like a cattle shelter . |
| 21 | As weather , work and the frenzy of city life threaten our sanity , the urge to flee from it all and to hell with the consequences , sweeps over the mind like a tsunami . |
| 22 | of the ward on the right erm , and er , it 's like a mens ' ward . |
| 23 | Thick Ethernet uses a DB-15 connector with 15 pins , rather like a games port . |
| 24 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 25 | I 'm like a corgi — I keep smiling while my teeth are firmly dug in . |
| 26 | Like a scales . |
| 27 | Lying across your knees like a maharani 's scarf . |
| 28 | The kitchen floor , Martina said , was like a jacuzzi . |
| 29 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 30 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |