Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The units are like the fruit on the tree . |
| 2 | The church , like the others on the island , is a three-aisled basilica with its western apse extending the full height of the church . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 4 | Looking at this one you can see that the whole format 's totally different , like the cartoon on the front and the layout . |
| 5 | But now the first thing I saw were the lines on his face standing out like the lines on a charcoal drawing . |
| 6 | His face was elfin , with wide grey eyes and a fuzz of pale hair , more like the fluff on a duckling than human hair . |
| 7 | I closed my eyes to inspect the patterns , but only the burning after-image remained , fading like the glow on the metal plate . |
| 8 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 9 | She lifted her skirts on each side a little higher , holding her elbows out to frame her shape like the handles on an amphora , and resumed , |
| 10 | If each of us could play our own small part , those parts would link up , like the ripples on a pond , to make a earth-saving whole . |
| 11 | It pours past unpreventably , like the reflections on a windscreen as the car speeds through city or forest . |
| 12 | ‘ Like the tap on a beer keg . ’ |
| 13 | Bright blusher looks far too blatant in summer , so avoid it like the beach on a bank holiday . |
| 14 | I would return from a trek in the snow , to thaw out by the roaring flames , one side at a time , just like the bread on a toasting fork . |
| 15 | On me , it looked like the fairy on a Christmas tree which has shed all its needles . |
| 16 | As a rule , nobody ever sat in the parlour ; it was kept for show rather than for use , like the clock on the mantelpiece , under its glass dome . |
| 17 | And the seal waved a flipper as the lights rose like the curtains on an opera and said : ‘ See how Aurora casts her dice and rolls us red ? |
| 18 | He took the strain like the anchor-man on a rope , pushing hard against his own backward pull — all the power in his leg and all the power in his arms — his face a rictus of effort , his lips drawn back like someone enduring pain . |
| 19 | Sadly , the rest of the EP still sounds like The Sugarcubes on a day off . |
| 20 | When you grow up you realize that it 's like the icing on a cake . |
| 21 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 22 | ’ It 's like the icing on the cake . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the audience for the images that were sometimes drawn and painted inside such books — portraits of the evangelists , for instance , or ( like the picture on the cover of this book ) of a royal patron — must have been very restricted . |
| 24 | There is a curiously dull feel to the LP , like Marley was burnt-out like the spliff on the back . |
| 25 | Like the Dragoons on the pasture , Ziegler had retreated rather than face unequal odds . |
| 26 | Peter was wearing a 2-point lap restraint , like the dummy on the left , his brother Paul the more usual 3-point shoulder strap worn by the one on the right . |
| 27 | Er , it 's like , it 's like the foreman on the shopfloor for some reason , there 's a er , in the systems or whatever , er , the warehouseman er , the night porter er , when he takes over , he knows what he 's doing , he knows what I want , because I 've spoken to him about it , erm , he knows what items I want to leave for stock people , erm , and Sue , the checkout manager , she 'll know if I want extra people on the shopfloor because we 're quiet , or I expect it to be quiet , erm , she knows where they 've got to be , and I 'll come back and review it with her . |
| 28 | When he returned to his room Coleridge was mortified to discover that ‘ though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision , yet , with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images , all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast … ’ |
| 29 | Cornelius 's smile , reaching Harry across the grey pool of light that spread between them , glistened like the fly on a fisherman 's line . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd escape from it riding like the wind on a champion racehorse , ’ Roger replied . |