Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 2 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 3 | She was wailing now like a baby herself ; marriage with him would mean more of them , her body used every night , and no theatre again , ever . |
| 4 | One little rascal had picked up a cigarette-end , still burning ( called a dog-end , or dout ) and was puffing away like a steam engine . |
| 5 | From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood . |
| 6 | Though his body was sweeling away like a torrent on a cliff |
| 7 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 8 | It was getting more like a grousemoor by the minute . |
| 9 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 10 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 11 | It would be just her luck if Inspector Montgomery drove past while she was swinging there like a monkey . |
| 12 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 13 | He glanced down at his thick cock , which was standing up like a telegraph pole . |
| 14 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 15 | Mine was feeling rather like a power-dive right now . |
| 16 | She was nowhere near the height of Anna Beckett either , who was shooting up like a sapling . |
| 17 | I turned round : Vern was following on like a dog . |