Example sentences of "[adv] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 seen like a border in perhaps like a bit of pink and bit of grey on it and it 's like sort of scalloped edging
2 The man who spoke was enough like the priest in face and build to indicate their relationship , but , instead of the severe black habit and tonsured head which proclaimed the cleric to be of the Benedictine order , he was dressed in all the splendour of a prosperous baron .
3 The Bowie thing was kinda like the spirit I did ‘ Walk Like An Egyptian ’ in .
4 He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady .
5 She was towed in like a liner by tugs , her hands and skirts clutched and pulled .
6 And could we take this yellow one off we 'll find it fits in like a wall , like that look .
7 You came in like a maniac , moving against the flow of traffic , and you 've taken my place ! ’
8 Then the head falls in like a pumpkin .
9 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 .
10 Whatever the colour scheme , whatever the style , these pretty white duvet covers and pillowcases from Lace Lady will fit in like a dream — and make for a good night 's sleep .
11 Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished .
12 That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base .
13 He would put away the car quietly , leaving the garage open in case the thud of the door woke her , then sneak in like a thief at the back door .
14 Autumn had come , slipping in like a thief , turning the countryside into one brilliant flash of orange , gold , russet and sombre red .
15 If he lands on a tree or on the ground he sticks in like a dart , and even if he survives the impact he wo n't be able to free himself easily .
16 At least have some wine , to put the colour back in your face ; you came in like a ghost .
17 Her words went in like a knife .
18 She looks as if she stuck every hairpin in like a knife . "
19 No it was in er , in was in like a plaster of paris thing
20 The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage .
21 She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget .
22 He walked in like a culprit .
23 big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals
24 This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up .
25 It 's a terrible appetite-killer , sitting opposite someone who picks and fiddles with their food , when all the time you 're desperate to tuck in like a pig . ’
26 ‘ I did n't know you could read , Jess , ’ Miss Phoebe said , coming in like a whisper .
27 ‘ When the sea gets to the base of that , the tide 's already too high , and it comes in like a horse trotting , as they say .
28 ‘ The tide , ’ he had said , ‘ comes in like a horse trotting . ’
29 They broke them in like a horse , but you could n't get their necks like a horse .
30 Chief Justice Fortescue slid in like a spider , scuttling across to sit next to the Duke .
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