Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 2 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 3 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 6 | Her torso itched as it puffed up like a flightless bird 's , and her legs dwindled and divided into a clump of Cthulhoid tentacles . |
| 7 | The summit of it curled forward like a giant wave at the point of breaking . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 10 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 11 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |
| 12 | It looked more like a public building or a sanatorium . |
| 13 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |