Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I fought back like a veritable lion but my sword and dagger were in the garret and who in the tavern would listen to my screams ? |
| 2 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 3 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 4 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 5 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 6 | I stood there like a half-opened penknife , splattering the forecourt noisily . |
| 7 | His chronic disease , which erupted periodically like a benign volcano , was his insurance policy . |
| 8 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 9 | It led across a sinister patch of ground known as the Smiling Meadow , which looked just like a pleasant grassy meadow of brilliant green , but which was actually a treacherous tract of shifting marsh , partly waterlogged and with only a single narrow path of firm ground across it . |
| 10 | In language which sounded convincingly like a social democrat 's , he indicated that Labour would concentrate investment on the new commanding heights of the modern economy — education and training — and on technical research and the transport system . |
| 11 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 12 | ‘ About time she helped out like a dutiful daughter . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Purry , who looked suitably like a black Persian cat , then brought the coffee in . |
| 14 | When he moved she jumped back like a startled rabbit . |
| 15 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |
| 16 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 17 | Once a smaller one buzzed by like a transparent bumble bee , below him but still above the tallest buildings . |
| 18 | To Ruth , crouching by Gran , he seemed hugely tall ; but he gazed round like a helpless child , seeming not to see them at first . |
| 19 | ‘ He behaved throughout like a perfect gentleman , ’ cried Fräulein Müller angrily at the top of her voice . |
| 20 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 21 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 22 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 23 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 24 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 25 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 26 | The summit of it curled forward like a giant wave at the point of breaking . |
| 27 | ‘ It had lost all the appearance of a sexual implement ; it looked disgustingly like a cheap gadget from the five and ten cent store , like a bright-coloured piece of fishing tackle minus the bait . ’ |
| 28 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 29 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 30 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |