Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1968 , the Conservatives established a Scottish Constitutional Committee , which behaved like a royal commission , under Sir Alec Douglas-Home . |
| 2 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 3 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 4 | It was a great " WHUFF " which rushed like a mighty wind through passages and rooms , rang the windows and leaving an ominous silence in its wake . |
| 5 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 6 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |
| 7 | Almost by return , he was hit by a missile which looked like a rotting cabbage . |
| 8 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 9 | Blisters which had formed the first time now burst , weeping clear fluid onto the burner which hissed like an angry snake . |
| 10 | It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away , raising its hands to its mouth . |
| 11 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 12 | Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber . |
| 13 | The good Lord knows what a dirty , loathsome task it was : the crowded houses , and the stinking sewers which smelt like a boiling cauldron in the heat of the city . |
| 14 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 15 | Surprised by what seemed like a complete change of subject , Robbie nevertheless shook her head . |
| 16 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 17 | Endill did not move for what seemed like a long time . |
| 18 | It was going to take Le Roux time to resolve the legal issues and to raise the £8 million , so to prevent the deal slipping away , he came up with what seemed like a clever wheeze at the time : Norton chairman Jimmy Tildesley would buy FUS personally , and ‘ warehouse ’ the company until Norton had the funds to buy it from him . |
| 19 | For a moment there was a stunned silence from his workmates and then pent-up breath was released in what seemed like a communal sigh , before the chief waggoner yelled , ‘ Come on ! |
| 20 | The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too . |
| 21 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 22 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 23 | In what seemed like a bizarre dress rehearsal of the fate awaiting his namesake , the Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson , words like ‘ drugs ’ , ‘ disgrace ’ , ‘ cheat ’ and ‘ liar ’ recurred in almost every newspaper . |
| 24 | Now she was in what seemed like a natural theatre , a deep , round hollow in the ground . |
| 25 | As word of what seemed like a miraculous survival spread , the gloom within Palestinian communities throughout the Middle East turned to joy . |
| 26 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 27 | The band came for what seemed like a Royal visit to the EMI CD plant at Swindon , to see their song become the 100 000 000th disc to be produced there . |
| 28 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 29 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 30 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |