Example sentences of "'s [noun] [vb -s] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tod 's heart cowers like an oyster at any quick movement from the other bodies in our car . |
| 2 | John 's body shudders like the ship itself . |
| 3 | The way in which the Prioress 's Tale hangs like a shadow over the pilgrims is reflected by the continuation of the rhyme-royal verse form from the tale into the following link : a feature matched only once elsewhere in the Tales , by an apparently repressed stanza at the end of the Clerk 's Tale ( IV : 1212a — g ) . |
| 4 | The woman 's face twitches like a tramp 's to the smell of soup . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin 's appeal looks like a gesture of despair after his failure to influence the central government . |
| 6 | Though proceedings occasionally teeter over into winsome cuteness ( witness the sugary pap of ‘ Sun ’ and ‘ Helicopter People ’ ) , most of tonight 's set sounds like the work of people with a sound grasp of pop virtues . |