Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mandeville sensed this and closed like a hawk for the kill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We were bored and felt like a change . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He did n't have a pre-ordained and immutable structure to his body , but curled and writhed like a cobra . |
| 11 | Sometimes he went semi-shaven-headed and looked like a monk . |
| 12 | The Reverend George Jocelyn Bottingley , six feet four and stooped like a crane , awaited them inside the porch . |