Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 2 | We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin . |
| 3 | Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool . |
| 4 | Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 6 | And he talks like a translation . ’ |
| 7 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 8 | I just thought poor guy , I mean he was somebody who thought he 'd overcome food addiction , drink addiction , drugs addiction and he looks like a spider . |
| 9 | Leave the whiskey in oak too long and it tastes like a sack of splinters , but if the ageing is done correctly , it makes the spirit mellow and vanillin-sweet . |
| 10 | Dealers from all over the UK will be there and it sounds like a historians . |
| 11 | and it splashes like a fountain |
| 12 | and it pulls like a plughole |
| 13 | They also provide us with , and my designers love this I mean they g go over there and they come back and they plaster these things all over , all over their design rooms and it looks like a Paris design house . |
| 14 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 15 | He 's wearing thick old cords worn smooth at the bum and knee but good-quality once , and what looks like a load of shirts and holey jumpers and cardigans . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's a killer , Wallace , but he talks like a suicide . ’ |
| 17 | This distinguishes the criminal problem from the civil , but it sounds like a counsel of despair . |
| 18 | ‘ You said it ; the quartet , four plus Charlie , but it sounds like a football match , does n't it ? |
| 19 | Central Park looms to the south with its jewelled fringe of MidTown skyline , but it seems like a mirage beyond the grasp of Welfare City . |