Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it 's like the change of a crew one way or the other , it was fat or heavy it 's , you know , it 's the eight guys that are there and those are the eight best men that Oxford have and I think we have the best crew with those eight people . |
| 2 | This is called It Was Good In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good . |
| 3 | Would you like that one again , In the afternoon when the sun half close his eyes , ants can be found not working , dogs in their cool places , vandal wall slice through heat , hold and let go of light in rays , in the afternoon when smoke curls like the back of a cat , people lean and braid hair , someone dressed like Christ looked in and said it was good now we have the dug out how food is presented erm can say so much , at least it does to me and , so that , so that the beginning of this poem became from er the food , piece of food held in the hand of the mayor in this picture . |
| 4 | According to age-old local legends , the meaning of the word Carno comes from a hill in the centre of the Parish called ‘ clorin ’ because it is shaped like the back of a horse ; the Welsh farmers ’ word for the tail of a foal is ‘ torir clorin ’ . |
| 5 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 6 | It 's got like the back of the supermarket , back of the er Marks and Spencers . |
| 7 | Living alone was like the idea of a hairshirt to George . |
| 8 | Some firms that make TV sets like the idea of the tree and branch system because it means that profitable electronics must be built into the receivers which they sell . |
| 9 | His breast rose up from the pyjama top like the prow of a boat cresting a wave . |
| 10 | It is not a large island , perhaps nine miles by five , with formidable cliffs to the north-west that face the weather rather like the prow of a ship . |
| 11 | If there 's a dinner or special occasion like the installation of the Chancellor , she might be bringing wine up from the stores , overseeing the table lay-out , arranging flowers , scheming the candles and napkins . |
| 12 | No doubt , Dej 's cronies had enjoyed access to the small pleasures of life which were increasingly denied to their subjects by the impact of their own economic policies , but it is the tawdry nature of men like the Minister of the Interior , Tudor Postelnicu , which is so unattractive . |
| 13 | ‘ So , with all my thoughts channelled of necessity elsewhere , ’ he continued , ‘ is it so surprising if something like the position of a needle on a petrol gauge does occasionally escape my attention ? ’ |
| 14 | It looked like the door of a prison . |
| 15 | Not sure of the music policy , but the name sounds like the ingredients of a takeaway from a less salubrious Chinese . |
| 16 | I ask you to think of that half century as a movement , like the flow of a river . |
| 17 | To see what the means , you really have to go to one of the national UFO events , something like The Phantoms Of The Sky conference , which took place in Sheffield this summer . |
| 18 | Giving him a name reassured them ; he was not some strange exotic phenomenon but something familiar like the title of a book . |
| 19 | She looked like the daughter of a missionary ; and I do n't mean that in a derogatory way . |
| 20 | He distinguished between different kinds of final cause , some of which , like the purpose of the eye , could be identified . |
| 21 | When listening to cases in court you should do so not passively , like the spectator of a play , but with active thought , as though you were yourself taking part ; framing in your mind during the examination-in-chief the questions you would put to the witness if the cross-examination fell to you . |
| 22 | A main feeder lava tunnel often branches towards the terminus of a flow rather like the distributaries of a river delta . |
| 23 | The lower jaw fits snugly into the groove when the jaws are shut , like the blade of a penknife fitting into its handle . |
| 24 | It is not an unalterable ‘ given ’ , like the composition of the Earth 's core . |
| 25 | Certainly she had the lightest skin among them , but she was not red-coloured , like the red of an egg . |
| 26 | It is a nondescript sound like the sigh of a carpet as furniture is shoved across it . |
| 27 | Various small dwellings pressed against its sides like the farrow of a sow . |
| 28 | Aside from the fact that she had n't slept well last night , she was not a ‘ morning person ’ as a rule , and half-past five — even in summer — seemed like the middle of the night . |
| 29 | The state must , therefore , like the parents of early childhood , protect the citizen and satisfy all his needs ; the state must , again like the parent of the infant , forgive , indulge and tolerate all his activities , even the parricidal , aggressive ones ; it must accept all criticism , but never criticize in its turn ; it must provide , but never demand in its turn ; it must love , cherish and value , but accept hatred , indifference and contempt in return . |
| 30 | Most brachiopods lead a rather uneventful life , attached by a stalk to a hard surface , like the underside of a rock , or another shell , filtering food from the surrounding sea water . |