Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 2 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 3 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 4 | The radiologist was obviously getting good soundings on the right of my stomach , for his sensor was traversing backwards and forwards like a frigate on a sweep with a nice , fat positive response , from a holed-up submarine . |
| 5 | check Backwards and forwards like a yo-yo . |
| 6 | So the price may be tossed hither and thither like a shuttlecock , as one side or the other gets the better in the ‘ higgling and bargaining ’ of the market . |
| 7 | God finger-flips the blubbery jail hither and thither like a war-game admiral nudging his fleet across maps of the sea . |
| 8 | Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside . |
| 9 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 10 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 11 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |
| 12 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
| 13 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |
| 14 | He was hungry all his life for friends and friendly environments , vilifying and imploring as he shifted about restlessly and unpredictably like a Lawrence , never finding the right place , the right person . |
| 15 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 16 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 17 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 18 | Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry ? |
| 19 | The eyes shifted back and forth like a metronome . |
| 20 | Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup . |
| 21 | Silence speaks loudly and frighteningly like a ghost . |
| 22 | — There was no way , though , she was going to step into that pit : Simon 's warning , ‘ Making a fool of you — not as daft as you think — making a fool of you , ’ replayed again and again like a commentary to the pictures in her head . |