Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 2 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 3 | What I did was to teeter from side to side like a tall mast on a small ship in a heavy sea . |
| 4 | Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple while she watched Lori going from window to window like someone trying to escape from a fire . |
| 5 | The next day , taking their advice , I climbed to the top of the hill through steep , dense undergrowth , clambering from tree to tree like a demented chimp . |
| 6 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 7 | He could not really account for what he did , moving from duty to duty like a sleep walker , so buoyed up he did n't even bother to study the stars that night , in spite of the sky being cloud free . |
| 8 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 9 | The whole thing seethed , illusion and allusion swinging from branch to branch like gibbons in the treetops . |
| 10 | ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us . |
| 11 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 12 | Musically , however , they have always been something of a mystery , flitting from style to style like a sort of rubbish Paul McCartney , cruising round different aspects of pop and soiling them . |
| 13 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 14 | The single stone with which it was set , opaque in browns and golds , passed from hand to hand like a glowing eye . |
| 15 | These marked lines ran from hilltop to hilltop like ‘ a fairy chain ’ . |
| 16 | Lalage jumped out of the car and waited , hopping from foot to foot like a child longing to pee , while Dada and Aunt Tossie slowly disembarked . |