Example sentences of "[prep] a cat 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't help being reminded of a cat 's tight , shell-pink rectum . |
| 2 | For a moment she looked furiously at Donald , her teeth bared like a cat 's , then she shook her hair out , spattering Donald with bree and barley , and hauled him back into the dance . |
| 3 | Like a cat 's with the sun shining in them . |
| 4 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 5 | The lad intrigued him , with his curiously flattened nose , like a cat 's , and his extremely coarse straight hair . |
| 6 | The net result is that there is no more reason to believe that our brains are like a cat 's than there is to believe that they are like a rat 's . |
| 7 | They 're a bit like a cat 's , they look as if they 're lit up , from inside , pale green like a cat 's . |
| 8 | The other woman 's eyes , like a cat 's , flash with reflected light . |
| 9 | Her eyes were half-closed like a cat 's in the sun . |