Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] up like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush . |
| 2 | I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’ |
| 3 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 4 | You 've made his ears fly up like a donkey 's . ’ |
| 5 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 6 | There was a smell inside that made all my senses rear up like a horse that smells blood . |
| 7 | Isobel looked up and laughed herself , her nose wrinkling up like a child 's . |
| 8 | the ray rose up like a revenant |
| 9 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 10 | It was suddenly as though the passion had been drained from her , her juices drying up like a desert stream in summer . |
| 11 | His flesh and bone opened up like a bud deploying a blood-red , white-stamened flower from which the petals almost instantly fell . |
| 12 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 13 | The tiresome Matchsticks shut up like a clam . |
| 14 | ( His claim to fame in these years was the slogan ‘ Kleenex Kitchen Towels mops up like a sponge ’ for client Kimberley Clark . ) |
| 15 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 16 | Her other hand whipped up like a snake , grasped Manescu by the throat . |
| 17 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |
| 18 | World economic and political uncertainty once caused gold to twitch up like a kneecap tapped with a hammer . |
| 19 | I was er , I was prepared remember , when I had my bone-graft , I went all prepared , shaved from head to foot wrapped up like a mummy , from my neck to my feet . |
| 20 | The view is always dimmed out , however , before the light declares itself , and there is a period of blurred dark when perspective shuts up like a concertina and the eye loses its bearings . |
| 21 | Dawn came up like a warning . |
| 22 | The imploding discs of cosmic matter are rotating , and as the pressure increases the rotation speeds up like a flywheel , ultimately flinging matter out into space . |
| 23 | Although there are also other Gaelic names for hemlock , the Biblical reference in Hosea X. 4 uses this name : ( Thus judgment springeth up like a hemlock in the furrows of the field ) . |
| 24 | While trying to convince myself how ridiculous this thought was , the turret lit up like a flash-bulb and exploded , or seemed to . |
| 25 | Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed . |