Example sentences of "[adv prt] like an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 2 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 3 | Before the school teacher could answer , there was another rap on the door and Beasley scampered in like an overgrown puppy , casting inquisitive glances at Jim Lancaster and the two police officers . |
| 4 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 5 | At last she wound down like an old-fashioned gramophone and rolled onto her back on the grass feeling exhausted . |
| 6 | his great jaw hanging down like an open hatch . |
| 7 | She stood and looked at Mrs Mantini , and gradually Mrs Mantini broke down like an overheated fire . |
| 8 | An eagle diving to the hand from 500 feet whistling down like an express train is a sight not often forgotten . |
| 9 | The one you spluttered over like an old colonel . ’ |
| 10 | Did Sue really mean to hand her love over like an old parcel ? |
| 11 | Wycliffe came out into the sunshine , blinking ; Emily saw him off like an old friend . |
| 12 | The charm he switches on and off like an electric fire . |
| 13 | ‘ Done this place up like an Egyptian brothel , have n't they ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Mephitic ’ might be compared with Fraser 's ‘ ulcerous ’ in ‘ Resentment wells up like an ulcerous vapour ’ . |
| 15 | The figure on the floor stirred and drew in its knees , curled up like an unborn baby . |
| 16 | Honor got up like an old woman , glancing past Topaz to the shelves where bottles of medicine were stored . |
| 17 | Without Anna for her mother she would have been brought up like an Italian girl of the time , like her aunts . |
| 18 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 19 | Best song of the night though , is the bitter ‘ High As I Kite ’ which builds via a tense three minutes , drops out and then comes back like an annoyed shop customer , to have another go . |
| 20 | I glanced down at the limb I was illustratively wiggling , only to find an involuntary erection making my trousers stick out like an accusing finger . |
| 21 | He was a Maniak all right , flying colours , with a pair of sawn-off pumpguns crossed on his back , and a long braided pigtail whipping out like an epileptic snake from under his horned skidlid . |
| 22 | Music and laughter wafted out like an invisible cloud . |
| 23 | Then an oak tree spiralled up , branching out like an exploding green rocket , and was in the middle of a venerable copse even before the tips of its aged branches had stopped quivering . |
| 24 | Even more crucially , if the nuclear industry was right about the lack of danger to health from its routine operations , then one piece of evidence stood out like an unexplained sore thumb . |
| 25 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 26 | Usually , Dorothy had been engaged in shifting her husband around like an inharmonious piece of furniture . |
| 27 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 28 | THE kind of man who lumbers about like an injured bear : the quintessential tough guy — strong , silent and self-con-tained . |
| 29 | Moreau fussed about like an old hen , whilst Karelius contented himself with nodding and grinning idiotically . |
| 30 | He stood there , shouting along and flapping his arms round like an over-excited seagull . |