Example sentences of "[adv] like a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 2 | The new Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover features important breakthroughs : Its round , oscillating brush head functions much like a dentist 's instrument . |
| 3 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 4 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 5 | If the usual cap is not put on , the following is made for a man : it is of flannel , cut exactly like an infant 's foundling cap . |
| 6 | To stop the board turning , just like a car 's steering wheel , you return the rig to a neutral middle position . |
| 7 | Just like a vaulter 's carbon fibre pole , FUSION conserves and then re-distributes energy — for stunning propulsion effect . |
| 8 | It looked just like a sailor 's hammock made out of toilet paper , cotton wool and string . |
| 9 | And then after I had my daughter I was going to go back in there but at the time it was just like a junior 's position , |
| 10 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |
| 11 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 12 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |
| 13 | The fruit has a long pointed protrusion , rather like a bird 's beak , and that 's how it gets the geranium name , meaning ‘ crane ’ . |
| 14 | In another there is in fact no seat as such , rather like a monk 's misericord , a chair that is not a chair ( Fig. 7 ) . |
| 15 | Its forelimbs have tiny claws on them which assist in grasping its mother 's hairs and it moves determinedly forward with a movement rather like a swimmer 's crawl , turning its head from one side to another with alternate strokes . |
| 16 | The cottage was so small it looked more like a doll 's house than a human dwelling . |
| 17 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 18 | Billy 's bedroom looked more like a student 's room than his pad at university ever had . |
| 19 | In the searing Saudi heat the steel plates in the boots , designed to protect soldiers from stakes in the jungle , heated up like a blacksmith 's anvil . |
| 20 | Ross Wyndham was all that she had tried so hard to forget — and more : tall , lean , dark and almost painfully attractive , his tanned skin darkened further by the thick black hair , which was swept back like a lion 's mane over his well-shaped head before sweeping down to curl over the top edge of his collar . |
| 21 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 22 | My hair comes out like a bird 's nest and my eyes look slitty . |
| 23 | She hauled him out like a conjuror 's rabbit out of a hat . |
| 24 | When she looked back towards the house , Carla 's face was at the window , peering out like a sailor 's wife watching for masts at the quayside . |
| 25 | The Doctor 's voice rang out like a ship 's bell in the darkness . |
| 26 | Against all reason they felt it could turn his slow decline around like a Lourdes ' miracle . |
| 27 | She would need at least one room that was n't like a builder 's yard , ’ Sam says . |
| 28 | muscle just came down here like a woman 's breast . |
| 29 | She looked at the pictures of the Spitfire , and trembled to think that his survival depended , in part , on such a little plane , almost like a child 's toy to her sophisticated eyes . |
| 30 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |