Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 2 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 3 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 4 | ( the city swirls around like a great beast , |
| 5 | The picture flicks down like a faulty framehold , vanishes beneath the rising sill . |
| 6 | Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail . |
| 7 | He comes on like a Greek god and claims credit for fixing the weather . |
| 8 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |
| 9 | In an uproarious performance , Finney comes over like a Mancunian Tigger , insufferably bouncy and crassly insensitive . |
| 10 | Dustin Hoffman , essaying Old Etonian , comes out like a poor take-off of Terry-Thomas . |
| 11 | Dustin Hoffman , essaying Old Etonian , comes out like a poor take-off of Terry-Thomas . |
| 12 | Best song of the night though , is the bitter ‘ High As I Kite ’ which builds via a tense three minutes , drops out and then comes back like an annoyed shop customer , to have another go . |
| 13 | Look at the surrounding skyline and pick out things that catch the eye — the flashy Porsche in the car-park , the dark cloud looming or the ugly building that sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 14 | But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch . |
| 15 | There 's no cover , and — as happened to me — any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb . |
| 16 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |