Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 2 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 3 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 4 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 5 | It stand out like a sore thumb sometimes when I 'm with them , I find people with handicapped children are real people , are people who are people with their children being , talking to them , instead of things that they can give them , you know . |
| 6 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 7 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 8 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 9 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 10 | Sometimes you may spot an occasional dorsal fin when it pops out like a miniature yacht sail . |
| 11 | When they played the song at London 's Borderline recently , it stood out like a radioactive rabbit on a nudist beach , primarily because most of the remainder of the set collapsed like a drunk deck of cards . |
| 12 | I , er I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb , and one would have expected that this paper came from education . |
| 13 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |