Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its feathers thrash , its heart must be drumming like a motor , |
| 2 | His anger might be justified , but it did not mean she must be treated like a criminal . |
| 3 | In all cases , the tip of the tool must be reshaped like a screwdriver blade , but with the edges rounded . |
| 4 | Another day or two and I 'll be skipping like a ram on the high hills . |
| 5 | Through the leaping smoke and flames , the woman could be seen like a mirage , her bare arms raised heavenward , her burning flesh writhing and twisting in agony , her screams reaching a higher pitch than Sara could have imagined possible from any human being . |
| 6 | But he could be pricked like a balloon . ’ |
| 7 | And then after that I 'd be drinking like a pint every twenty minutes or so . |
| 8 | There would also be a pop-up chip that would be replaced like a film . ’ |
| 9 | Yet there are optimists too in Beijing who point to internal conflicts of the post-massacre leadership , its empty rhetoric and lack of moral authority as grounds for confidence that sooner or later it will be consumed like a stack of dry firewood . |
| 10 | It goes without saying that it will be a day to remember , as our lucky winner will be treated like a star . |
| 11 | The new woman will be built like a dancer and — about 5ft 4in tall . |
| 12 | The first is a very high performance aircraft that can be flown like a fighter , using a mix of hand-flying and the automatics . |
| 13 | This treatment was also applied to the smaller door , reached via a short flight of external stone steps that previously served the upper-level hay-loft , so that the new infilling panel of clear double-glazing , set well back from the external face of the wall , helps to light a sitting room while a ‘ door ’ , which can be swung like a shutter to seal this opening , is fixed back against the face of the adjoining flintwork . |
| 14 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 15 | I am standing with Joe , a round the world Australian , beneath eucalyptus trees , looking over a landscape that can be read like a Breughel . |
| 16 | Once a repetition has been observed to flow , it can be dammed like a river , building up the pressure until it becomes irresistible and the dam bursts . |