Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He behaved throughout like a perfect gentleman , ’ cried Fräulein Müller angrily at the top of her voice . |
| 2 | His chronic disease , which erupted periodically like a benign volcano , was his insurance policy . |
| 3 | Whenever she settled down , posed gracefully like a romantic heroine , Isolde or Deirdre , gazing wistfully out over the battlements south towards her beloved , her mother 's sharp voice would echo up the stair . |
| 4 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 5 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 6 | The luckless creature , who confessed to coming from Leeds as though it were an explanation of the folly , abandoned it all and trudged home like a beaten cur . |
| 7 | In reality , the approach seemed more like a polite version of gate crashing . |
| 8 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 9 | The moon shone overhead like a new dime . |
| 10 | There was only one candle in place , stuck upright like a pale wax finger , and this had never been lit . |
| 11 | Alec Davidson stepped forward like a condemned man . |
| 12 | These are flying beetles that begin their lives in the soil as the familiar white or cream-coloured grubs , fat from feeding on plant roots , horny headed , usually brown in colour , very slow and sluggish moving and curled rather like a large letter C. There are several kinds , from the large cock chafer to the much smaller greenish rose chafer . |
| 13 | You 've been fed and watered just like a new baby . |
| 14 | His body slumped lifelessly like a torn rag doll . |
| 15 | The summit of it curled forward like a giant wave at the point of breaking . |
| 16 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 17 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 18 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 19 | Its functional modernity struck a discordant note in a room which was otherwise cluttered with eighteenth-century furniture ; two chairs with embroidered seats , a Pembroke table , a bureau , each a fine example of its period , were strategically placed to provide an island of support if she needed to make her painful progress to the door , so that the room looked rather like an antique shop with its treasures ineptly displayed . |
| 20 | Her gaze fixed on her adversary , she had backed straight into what felt rather like a human version of the Great Wall of China . |
| 21 | Inspector Drew was looking at me very closely , and I felt rather like a naughty schoolboy under the stern gaze of the headmaster . |
| 22 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 23 | With her wounds dressed and bound and clean clothes on , Jazzbeaux felt approximately like a human being . |
| 24 | In the Seventies , you know he looked just like a Funkadelic thing : the hair , the shirts , the parts , the shades . |
| 25 | To Mary he looked just like an Indian prince . |
| 26 | In the darkness I felt in the hands of God , someone who could do anything He liked with me , even though that someone was more likely to be Mr Slieman , the manager , who with his pencil moustache looked more like a used car salesman and was constantly trying to show Louise , the cashier and kiosk girl , his collection of prophylactics . |
| 27 | He did not have the tense , predatory look of a stalking wolf , nor the jerky movements of a frightened horse ; rather , he looked more like a dozy mare watching her foal . |
| 28 | Plumfield was young , and Kate thought he looked more like a social worker than a psychiatrist . |
| 29 | This simple idea was the starting point for Philips ’ effort to enter the consumer market with a multimedia CD product that felt and looked more like a domestic appliance than a computer . |
| 30 | It looked more like a public building or a sanatorium . |