Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 2 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 3 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 4 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 5 | The bus came and they boarded it , but to Erika it seemed less like the familiar old lumbering , lurching , yellow Berlin bus , and more a vehicle of romance , gliding through a night made mysterious by more than fog . |
| 6 | The waves around these rocks churn up a salty froth that is said to resemble cotton-wool , though to me it seemed more like the foaming spit of an angry sea-serpent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 9 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 10 | The summit of it curled forward like a giant wave at the point of breaking . |
| 11 | ‘ It had lost all the appearance of a sexual implement ; it looked disgustingly like a cheap gadget from the five and ten cent store , like a bright-coloured piece of fishing tackle minus the bait . ’ |
| 12 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 13 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 14 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |
| 15 | It looked more like a public building or a sanatorium . |
| 16 | Neither he nor Loren liked the house , much ; it had been built not too long after the war , and with its small windows and pebbledash it had none of the atmosphere of the ‘ place in the country ’ that they 'd been hoping for-if anything , it looked more like the married quarters for lower RAF ranks to be found around old and run-down airfields . |
| 17 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 18 | Here and there it felt more like the Middle Ages . |
| 19 | Even the partner was impressed at the end of the session ; with his dick freer to move around , he said it felt more like the real thing . |
| 20 | The ‘ Far Eastern ’ memorandum was a superb and elegant paper even though , in its abstract idealizations of how colonialism should have come to an end , it sounded rather like a secular Sermon on the Mount . |
| 21 | To Curtis 's ears it sounded uncannily like the faint clapping of a ghostly audience . |
| 22 | 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 . |