Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stop coming in and looking like a gun merchant . ’ |
| 2 | Dot kept still and quiet , head down and hunched like a bird sleeping , hoping Gloria would n't know she was in there . |
| 3 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 4 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 5 | That night to Michelle Phillips he broke down and cried like a baby . |
| 6 | She packed her bag together and drove like a maniac to the mikva . |
| 7 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 8 | Beryllium is a light metal which catches fire easily and burns like a magnesium flash . |
| 9 | He peeled one glove off and beckoned like a woman . |
| 10 | Richard laughed at a vision of the nipple cut off and stuck like a baby 's dummy in Martin 's mouth . |
| 11 | After a time ( or if disturbed ) this living globe breaks up and disappears like a rain of silver back into the depths of the sea . |
| 12 | She always ties her hair up and does n't wear any make up and looks like a boy . |
| 13 | It poked out and wriggled like a slug . |
| 14 | The audience heaved upwards and broke like a wave , applauding , stamping , weeping , shouting , wailing with bitter envy and writhing to soak up a little of the surplus magic in the air . |
| 15 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 16 | Sitting up on the rail , he spat down at Trent , then tilted his head back and yapped like a Pekinese . |
| 17 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |