Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adj] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are they gleaming and pristine like a cabinet minister 's ? |
| 2 | Head buried , nothing to see but the brown velvet belly full of blood , all soft and bloated like a spider 's abdomen . |
| 3 | That frozen feeling seemed to have reached her heart , turning it cold and heavy like a stone . |
| 4 | Black and stiff like a carving made for tourists . |
| 5 | Her mouth was clumsy and awkward like a child 's good night , and when she spoke the words vibrated inside my mouth . |
| 6 | This Friday , the gym was freezing and all the children 's legs had turned pink and orange and mauve like a winter sunset . |
| 7 | They were full and sensuous like a woman 's , though at times they gave him a hint of cruelty . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ said the corporal at last , looking out over the river to where a low mud shoal raised its back above the water , grey and wrinkled like a hippopotamus , ‘ it was there . ’ |
| 9 | The woman sniffed back her tears , and drew the shawl around her body , which was heavy and useful like a sack of potatoes . |
| 10 | Next morning , the countryside was heavy and sullen like a house where a dreadful quarrel has taken place and still nothing is resolved . |
| 11 | The Bishop 's secretary was small and sleek like a mole , with padded compartments in his clothes for the precious books he carried with him everywhere — an accounting book and a psalter . |
| 12 | I do n't know what it was , the mist , the way it hung , hot and heavy like a blanket , the weirdness and the exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast , but I suddenly realised I was scared . |
| 13 | His voice was thick and coarse like a peasant salami . |
| 14 | He was a big man of about forty , with dark hair flopping over his forehead ; his eyes were dark too , strangely wide and clear like a child 's ; and his face was as familiar to her as Adam 's . |
| 15 | The Bible , then , must be true or false like a newspaper report ; few people had room for the truths of poetry or of fiction in their religion . |