Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 2 | I 'm I 'm a site agent for Tarmac Construction at erm I attend quite a few erm presentations really , tender interviews often going to the clients management meetings , site meetings and then like a lot of you the one to one situation . |
| 3 | Although he has always given strong leadership , Jan Hoet has not acted by divine right but more like a president , encouraging an on-going debate between the exhibition 's four curators . |
| 4 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 5 | At the beginning of this book , the boys had clearly split into two different groups , the first group was uncontrolled , carefree and disorganised and the second group was the opposite , controlled , one unit and almost like an army . |
| 6 | I was here once , he thought , stirred by a recollection that was not at all like an ordinary memory but more like a flash of déjà vu about some great happiness known before he was born . |
| 7 | And the après ski is less like a Martini commercial and more like an episode of Colditz . |