Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be eagle-eyed or watch like a lynx . |
| 2 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 3 | She wondered whether Philippa had really outgrown her passion for partially disabled men but she seemed oblivious of all this and sat like a springtime sprig in a bed of roses , contemplating her coincidental twin . |
| 4 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 5 | A spatter of April rain disturbed the surface of the mere and rustled like a whisper on the young leaves of the trees but the Trapper continued to pick his way with quiet deliberation and the Friar adjusted his pace . |
| 6 | We were bored and felt like a change . ’ |
| 7 | The rapist is described as black , five foot seven inches tall and looks like a body-builder . |
| 8 | The woman who came towards Molly from the shadows by the bookcase was very tall and swaying like a poplar in a high wind . |
| 9 | Wings broad and rounded like a Goshawk , but flight more harrier-like , quartering the ground ; more often seen perched on a tree or post , often in a distinctive horizontal position . |
| 10 | Just then Elinor appeared in kingfisher-blue sequins , tight and glistening like a mermaid 's tail . |
| 11 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 12 | The stiff pink towel glares at me , contorted and frozen like a hunchback caught in the ice . |
| 13 | His face was round , soft and glowing like a baby 's and his gentle , grey eyes were laughing despite his verbal cynicism . |
| 14 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 15 | One paw came up and Athelstan stood , riveted by the great , slavering jaws , the teeth — long , white and pointed like a row of daggers — and the insane ferocity blazing in those red-brown eyes . |
| 16 | And as he spoke , El-ahrairah 's tail grew shining white and flashed like a star : and his back legs grew long and powerful and he thumped the hillside until the very beetles fell off the grass-stems . |
| 17 | And so it was that a man who had tried his hand at a whole variety of working-class jobs but who was no friend of the labour unions could , as part of his episodic film Intolerance , quite effortlessly recreate a clash between workers and police that is so lifelike as to seem like a newsreel and to suggest that perhaps every subsequent labour riot followed its pattern . |
| 18 | He did n't have a pre-ordained and immutable structure to his body , but curled and writhed like a cobra . |
| 19 | ‘ Joking , damn you , stand still and fight like a man . ' , |
| 20 | Instead of fleeing , like most small birds approached this closely , the cut-throat sits firm and hisses like a snake . |
| 21 | Sometimes he went semi-shaven-headed and looked like a monk . |
| 22 | He was short but built like a bull , with a thick neck and heavily muscled shoulders . |
| 23 | At first Kon-Tiki 's journey appeared foolhardy , experts said that the raft would become waterlogged and sink like a stone , but the companions went ahead anyway . |
| 24 | The Reverend George Jocelyn Bottingley , six feet four and stooped like a crane , awaited them inside the porch . |
| 25 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 26 | But supposing we were in the same distressing condition as Mrs Lilian Boyes , whose pain was so intense she was described as ‘ howling and screaming like a dog ? ’ |
| 27 | Yet here was this unkempt figure , his long hair lank on his shoulders , leading them into the jaws of the unknown and sounding like a Bible prophet . |