Example sentences of "has [vb pp] like a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue . |
2 | " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude . |
3 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
4 | The early morning sun of Herefordshire has shone like a beacon to the racing world this week . |
5 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
6 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |
7 | SARAH Parrott has become like a sister to her young friend Philip Dawson , who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
8 | He gave no details of the proposals but said : ‘ The deportees issue has become like a thorn in resuming the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn . |
9 | ‘ No doubt the deportees issue has become like a thorn in renewing the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn , ’ Mr Shara said . |
10 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
11 | She said yesterday her home in Louisa Street , Darlington , has become like a house under siege . |