Example sentences of "that [vb past] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 2 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 3 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 4 | He was being drawn into that single point of pain that burned like a hot light . |
| 5 | Blood erupted from the wound that opened like a grinning mouth , spewing crimson over the lifeless figures . |
| 6 | A bowl , she decided , exploring with fingers that were almost too frozen to feel anything , with something inside it that felt like a tiny lump of candlewax — and a wick . |
| 7 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
| 8 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
| 9 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 10 | ‘ Bizarro ’ ( Gedge liked the word ) came in a dark green sleeve with a design that looked like a red-coloured star shooting across a night sky . |
| 11 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 12 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 13 | The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits . |
| 14 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 15 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |