Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | grapes no not one twenty , yes , Keith goes through them like a hot mouth through butter . |
| 2 | A storm of pain ripped through her like the indigo fingers of a tornado and carried her out on to a midnight sea . |
| 3 | That last taut exchange with Roman seemed to have whipped up some invisible energy that would n't let her relax , prickling through her like an electric storm . |
| 4 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 5 | Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows . |
| 6 | He stood up , and he towered above her like a golden figure in one of the hospital 's many paintings . |
| 7 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 8 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 9 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 10 | She told herself not to let negative thoughts take over , but , night after night , her will-power dissolved into helplessness , and when at last she slept , her past life rose before her like a grotesque apparition . |
| 11 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 12 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 13 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 14 | The reflections flickered on her like a distant storm . |
| 15 | ‘ Dr Neil ? ’ she said , turning and bobbing at him like a proper servant , a manoeuvre which amused him , so that his lips twitched at the unlikely sight — it was so much at odds with her determined personality . |
| 16 | His dark eyes flickered at me like a long sooty flame , then he looked down again . |
| 17 | Some cases , the easy ones , were solved by it like an intellectual puzzle . |
| 18 | The dwarf holds out her hand , it flutters in hers like a caged bird . |
| 19 | Marcus had shattered that soft innocence when he had turned on her like a rabid dog , snapping , destroying , infecting … |
| 20 | The night hung over her like a big , umbrella , black and stifling . |
| 21 | ‘ This has gone too far , ’ she stormed , rounding on him like a vengeful fury . |
| 22 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 23 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 24 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 25 | Tock was striking at the cogs at the top of the pole , banging the machinery and shouting at it like a crazy old man . |
| 26 | But , cooped up in his 12 by 10 feet prison cell in the Indiana Youth Centre , Tyson spoke about his sentence and his incarceration that eats at him like a malignant disease . |
| 27 | Relief washed through her like an incoming tide . |
| 28 | She 'd had all of four or five hours , before she 'd come rushing after him like a lovelorn schoolgirl … |
| 29 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 30 | The food she had eaten immediately seemed to stick inside her like a great lump of lead . |