Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 2 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 3 | With David Dimbleby and Peter Sissons occupying curvy command modules jutting out over a sea of computer screens and flashing lights , it seemed rather like a cross between the deck of the Starship Enterprise and an Italian disco . |
| 4 | Those few days seemed more like a year to me . |
| 5 | ‘ Seemed more like a slap in the face to me , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Seven years ago he 'd gone away , leaving her nothing but the cup to remember him by ; it was so long ago that Crazy Jake , with his wide strange eyes and his queer stories , seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father . |
| 7 | Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her . |
| 8 | She seemed almost like a god to them . |
| 9 | The clip-clop of a hoof came almost like a gunshot in the quiet which followed . |
| 10 | Although appointed as secretary , Doris Alloway became more like a daughter to Mrs Tiller . |
| 11 | The cab leapt forward like a racehorse from a gate , its jockey 's laugh rising above the guttural din of the engine . |
| 12 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 13 | He felt more like a hole in the air than ever , and began also to seem frighteningly insensible . |
| 14 | It was supposed to be like going Over the Top , but it felt more like a gang of reluctant schoolboys setting out on a cross-country run with only the prospect of a quick smoke round the back of the bike sheds to sustain them . |
| 15 | Low range felt more like a gesture to off-road work than a useful step-down in speed . |
| 16 | The front was slashed all the way down to her navel to reveal rounded breasts , which rose and fell temptingly like a couple of ripe peaches . |
| 17 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 18 | Ironically it looked more like a scene from after the nuclear holocaust instead of a plea to prevent one . |
| 19 | Elinor had woken up and was trying on a black dress that looked more like a kind of solo tent than anything else . |
| 20 | it looked more like a cluster of bats in a duster |
| 21 | No ! ’ , looked more like a presenter in search of a Day-like persona than one in control of the show . |
| 22 | Mitch leaned forward and yelled into the count 's ear and instantly the small plane banked and screamed downwards like a stone from a catapult . |
| 23 | It lay now like a stone across Louisa 's tongue . |
| 24 | FIVE weeks into the war , it felt eerily like a replay of its tense beginning . |
| 25 | As guard dogs barked at rabbits in the barbed-wire-ringed grounds , Bawdsey Manor last week looked uncommonly like a place with secrets still to harbour . |
| 26 | Other widely reported developments during March , in what appeared increasingly like a battle for political control of the townships , included the reported killing of at least 60 people in Alexandra township , near Johannesburg . |
| 27 | Behind him Hrun screamed , but it sounded more like a bellow of rage than a cry of pain . |
| 28 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 29 | The fury of the critics was directed at the intellectual poet who wrote deliberately like a simpleton in the Lyrical Ballads and the Poems of 1807 . |
| 30 | Kattina was summoned to the gangway of the houseboat to meet them before they tramped aboard like a herd of elephants . |