Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] like [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 2 | There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful . |
| 3 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 4 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 5 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 8 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 9 | Of course , after I 'd cut off one bit , my temper cooled down like a hot Poker dipped in a rain barrel . |
| 10 | Lissa drew her robe around herself in a protective gesture , her mind frozen over like a bleak winter landscape . |
| 11 | Betinna lay curled up like a long-haired cat on the sofa . |
| 12 | I caught a glimpse of JCBs grazing in the adjoining field like a group of hybrid giraffes ; and was that a dumper truck with its shell tipped up like a rutting tortoise ? |
| 13 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 14 | We had come back like the full circle of our route , intact . |
| 15 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 16 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 17 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 18 | But it has to be something good , or it will just fizzle out like a damp squib and you 'll feel worse than ever . ’ |
| 19 | The old bill that bounced back like a bad penny . |
| 20 | ‘ A few notes spaced out like the first stars that penetrate the sky at sunset ’ , as Tovey describes the miraculous midway section . |
| 21 | ‘ About time she helped out like a dutiful daughter . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Especially with you tearing around like the wronged boyfriend in the last reel of Some Came Running , waving your wretched gun . |
| 23 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 24 | Never had she limped around like a milk-soaked rabbit , quiet and withdrawn . |
| 25 | For his blasphemy and irresponsible behaviour , he was doomed to wander about like a sea-tossed ghost , never to rest again . |
| 26 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 27 | It returned , ‘ wove about like a drunken hoorie ’ in Benson 's words , and disappeared from radar south of Glasgow . |
| 28 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 29 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 30 | he 's walking round like a lost soul |