Example sentences of "like a [noun sg] from [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time a few gifted minds became a collective powerhouse , charged with a brilliance that still shines like a lighthouse from the badlands of ignorance . |
| 2 | She 'd even given her a bed in her own place , brought her in like a waif from the streets in a gesture of stern and unsentimental charity . |
| 3 | Lying still , drugged by her own fantasies , she watched as he shrugged off his clothes with minimum effort , a lean efficiency of movement that left him naked , muscled and golden like a god from the pages of Nordic mythology . |
| 4 | The scene that confronted her was like a tableau from a waxworks , she thought with faint hysteria as she walked in . |
| 5 | The campaign to get the new ‘ child tax credit ’ payable to mothers was eventually a successful one : while the tax credit-scheme as a whole was abandoned , the child benefit , combining family allowance and child tax allowance and payable to the mother for all her children including the first , rose like a Phoenix from the ashes , in the form of the Child Benefit Act , 1975 . |
| 6 | Her female Spirit-Self simply seems to rise mysteriously like a phoenix from the ashes of patriarchal conditioning . |
| 7 | She was glad to reach the door of the Seven Stars where she could rest the bag , though she was screwed up with fear that Garty might pop out of some alley , or Samson erupt like a volcano from the bowels of the tavern . |