Example sentences of "and [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 2 | The tied-up human went to sleep after a while , and snored like someone sawing a thick log with a thin saw . |
| 3 | Arty was sitting up in bed , his hair shining from a liberal application of something that looked and smelled like perfumed vaseline and came from a jar labelled Easi-Gro . |
| 4 | In the palace , in the castle , at the hunt ball and the country house men brayed like donkeys and women shrieked and swooped like owls : the middle classes made me fidgety with their concern — was I not out too late ? |
| 5 | I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace . |
| 6 | Her thoughts whirled and tumbled like leaves in a gale . |
| 7 | Ignoring the way her heart leapt and tumbled like a circus clown at the thought of working with him , being with him , she inclined her head . |
| 8 | Tony Wilkinson dressed up as a down-and-out in London and lived like a tramp for several weeks as part of a television enquiry into London 's dossers , published in book form as Down and Out . |
| 9 | He had always imagined them as they were depicted in the media — beautiful young girls who loved their job and lived like queens . |
| 10 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 11 | Our experience passed the limits of abhorrence : I lost all my earthly faculties and fought like an angel . |
| 12 | It was the evening of a fortnightly pay Friday , and the working people , who had spent a percentage of their earnings in the public houses , were gathered en masse in front of the railway ticket office , to purchase tickets for the ‘ stand-up carriages ’ ( carriages in which there were not seats ) , to convey them to Glasgow ; they hooted , yelled , swore , crushed , and fought like fiends , and the depraved look engraved on many faces made one shudder . |
| 13 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 14 | ‘ Said you commanded it like a true Englishman , sir , and fought like a Roman . |
| 15 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 16 | Two gold bears came down and swam like men |
| 17 | We sat and dined like a group of friends . |
| 18 | In the wind , the shadows threw barred stripes and moved like prowling tigers . |
| 19 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The white blades rose and trembled like wings over the water , dipped , and rose again , scattering drops of emerald . |
| 22 | Sitting up on the rail , he spat down at Trent , then tilted his head back and yapped like a Pekinese . |
| 23 | Dacourt stopped speaking and gaped like a carp . |
| 24 | He waited until Athelstan had put the black pouch back into the tabernacle and Crim had taken his penny and fled like the wind , before putting the cat down and approaching Athelstan . |
| 25 | He was a long way off the ground when she released him and he plummeted to earth and hit the floor and bounced like a football . |
| 26 | He usually talked and behaved like that with women . |
| 27 | He kept it , he told himself , to give back to her when she was kind and behaved like a proper wire . |
| 28 | But Modigliani broke all the taboos and behaved like a modern-day King David . |
| 29 | They wore immaculate clothes , regarded themselves as an élite and behaved like gods . |
| 30 | At the age of 30 , she still looked and behaved like a teenager . |