Example sentences of "together like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slapped his palms together like a conjuror . |
| 2 | The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one . |
| 3 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 4 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 5 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 6 | The individual plates of the stem slot together like a stack of coins ; they are termed ossicles . |
| 7 | Donkeys graze by fields of breezy sugar cane , and minarets rise phoenix-like from seas of palm trees , their fronds swaying together like a corps-de-ballet . |
| 8 | The Swinging ‘ Sixties , Peace and Love and the Beatles go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 9 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 10 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
| 11 | " Fever and the jungle go together like a carriage and pair , Chuck , " said the senator lightly . |
| 12 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |