Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb infin] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 2 | He 's really gorgeous wee Simeon although our Joy lets him schlepp about like a Toerag . |
| 3 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 4 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 5 | ‘ Remember to let the feeling out , let it gush out like a fountain , but draw it back afterwards . |
| 6 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 7 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 8 | Lord have mercy upon us , " said the Collector heavily , making it sound more like a command than a supplication . |
| 9 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 10 | Its ‘ soft-bite ’ texture makes it seem more like a teat then a normal spout . |
| 11 | If we try to make something of it , will he pop up like a maggot from an apple ? |