Example sentences of "[adv] like an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | plug it in like an earphone . |
| 2 | Like the they 're names are Swedish sounding but if you put them together like an Asterix book they they sound like something else . |
| 3 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose Mrs C. thought I 'd be swilling it down like an alcoholic if she left it in the room . |
| 5 | You 've actually got yourself believing your dead sister has risen from the dead and is running loose in this Cathedral , hunting you down like an animal . |
| 6 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 7 | Properly drained and topped with about 2 metres of sand , they have become playing fields or ornamental gardens , with the seed-mulch mixture being spread by a machine much like an asphalt spreader . |
| 8 | It looked , she thought , very much like an excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 9 | It sounded too much like an apology . |
| 10 | Nobody felt much like an athlete at four in the morning . |
| 11 | Currency Options provide insurance against adverse exchange rate movements without penalty if exchange rates move favourably but they do have a fundamental drawback in that they are purchased with a cash premium , much like an insurance policy , which can be substantial . |
| 12 | During the action of The Lord of the Rings , though , Gandalf never looks very much like an angel , or at least not one of the normal iconographic kind . |
| 13 | Like the latter-day Woody Allen , he has nothing to declare but his auteurism , a deflection from genuine ambition much like an indie Number One — Hartley 's exact current position in America . |
| 14 | Ti amo : it sounds perhaps a bit too much like an aperitif , but is full of structural conviction with subject and verb , the doer and the deed , enclosed in the same word . |
| 15 | I hoped it would n't sound too much like an Oscar acceptance speech , but I was determined not to leave anyone out . |
| 16 | The practice looked all too much like an effort to make the Scots pay for the French , and for French interests . |
| 17 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 18 | It was so like an act of worship , so supplicating , that Alexandra could not bear it . |
| 19 | All he needed , he sometimes thought , was a trunk to make him look exactly like an elephant . |
| 20 | It looked exactly like an orchard in the spring time , and her piece of sky looked quite reasonable too . |
| 21 | If the usual cap is not put on , the following is made for a man : it is of flannel , cut exactly like an infant 's foundling cap . |
| 22 | Whereas a visit to the Design Museum can feel disconcertingly like an excursion to Covent Garden ( window-shopping interspersed with sups of cappuccino ) , the V&A 's 20th Century Gallery opened in a period where consumerism has become an even more problematic model for museological display . |
| 23 | Pink all over like an apple tree in May ! |
| 24 | Fine — just like an endpiece from News at Ten — but where was the science angle ? |
| 25 | She 's just like an insect under my foot . |
| 26 | To provide a dramatic contrast that is also a unity , the sun must be truly dominant and its satellites must be a family that shares a common property of shape and size : just like an atom or a solar system . |
| 27 | But there 's always a but if there 's really a moral lesson it 's all just like an observation . |
| 28 | ‘ Why , ’ said Ramses admiringly , ‘ you 're beginning to think just like an accountant ! |
| 29 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 30 | You know it was shaped just like an egg . |