Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam sat motionless in one of the corners — looking less and less like a real person , Ruth noted ; he never spoke now , or appeared to hear if anyone addressed him . |
| 2 | God — I was sounding more and more like a real North Londoner all the time . |
| 3 | Pilger was by now well into his forties and , like many other good campaigning journalists , more and more like a beached whale , increasingly irrelevant in the cynical new world of slick and sick journalism . |
| 4 | I was feeling more and more like a little kid with each day that passed . |
| 5 | Shockingly juxtaposed with an apparently childish survival of a primitive chant , the Lord 's Prayer grows increasingly fragmented , corruptly incorporating the complaint , ‘ Life is very long ’ , while being broken up and having its utterance prevented by ‘ the Shadow ’ in the long passages which are partly like a new ritual , usurping the old , and partly like a long gloss which dominates the original text of the prayer . |
| 6 | Then we noticed that the Pike head was sort of pulsing backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy . |
| 7 | Pike 's head quite often pulses backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy . |
| 8 | I do n't want you rushing backwards and forwards like a bloody yo-yo |
| 9 | The earlier classics — Annie Hall , Manhattan , Love and Death , Sleeper et al — are all available from Warner at around £11 , and each should be collected and brought out again and again like a favourite sweater . |