Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [verb] [adv prt] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 2 | And this time instead of speeding it up so we 're whooshing off like a like a bee okay . |
| 3 | Ministers are a bunch of desperadoes , and they are carrying on like a bunch of stoneheads . |
| 4 | Aye , they 're dressed up like a flie hook well a flie hook what you fish with . |
| 5 | There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery . |
| 6 | They 're wired up like a lighting circuit , with the circuit cable terminating at the last — to fixed appliances like cookers and immersion heaters — are also wired up as radial circuits . |
| 7 | They 're blundering about like a ship in the fog , with no terms of reference to steer by . |