Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then in their wake , a stately schooner under full sail — Sister Cooney bobbing like a fretful tug in attendance — she hove in sight , a strongly-timbered woman , solid and soundly ballasted . |
| 2 | Melanie swam like a blind , earless fish in a sea of sedation , where there was no time or memory but only dreams . |
| 3 | Brig Ramsey fought like a tigress to save the WRAC 's cap badge . |
| 4 | Angus slouched like a spoiled brat , nodded and began to tap noisily on the table top with his fingers . |
| 5 | In his great house , almost bereft of servants and filled with damps , glooms and moulds , Porua lived like a soldier under siege . |
| 6 | Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island . |
| 7 | It was a black cleavage-revealing affair topped by a sparkling gold necklace , and with her hair swept up into a sophisticated style the older woman made Lucy feel like a country cousin . |
| 8 | It made Britta feel like a child . |
| 9 | All the same , he found it pleasant to watch Hari reviving like a thirsty plant which has just been watered . |
| 10 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 11 | For Helen , all that week , Saturday shone like a distant sunlit hilltop . |
| 12 | Miss Angus bellowed like a slightly cracked version of Gabriel 's trumpet : ‘ I said take them away , woman ! ’ |
| 13 | Gaveston stiffened like a dog ready to attack . |
| 14 | Sometimes life in Detroit seems like a grotesque farce . |
| 15 | Behind us , Vegas burns like a garden bonfire at night . |
| 16 | She picked up another , while Donna watched like a terrified rabbit . |
| 17 | Richard blushed like a schoolboy . |
| 18 | Behind him Georgina advanced like a victorious army . |
| 19 | Lucy looked like a bright little girl , and Jay snapped into the role of brisk helper . |
| 20 | Edward felt like a colonial or a schoolboy , and it irked . |
| 21 | Ken looked like a waterborne Tarzan , swinging through the air from wave to wave . |
| 22 | Twelve-year-old Linda looked like a happy accident . |
| 23 | He took his hand and led him away and Mister Johnny went like a lamb . |
| 24 | Mirabilis looked like a magician , Foreman had the appearance of some village parson in his dark fustian jacket , hose and soft felt slippers . |
| 25 | Jekub emerged like a very angry chick from a very old egg and then rolled to a stop . |
| 26 | Paddington shines like a skating rink , |
| 27 | This Soviet DRA scheme for guarantees of non-intervention in and the non-alignment of Afghanistan sounded like a form of neutralisation of that country on Soviet terms . |
| 28 | McRae 's Subaru coughed like a grizzly bear , went sideways into the first of a thousand bends , spitting grit in lacerating force at a lot of spectators , as brave as the men they had come to admire then disappeared into the foreboding conifers of Grizedale Forest . |
| 29 | Have you seen Jan and Joan dress up to their their Victorian day Jan came like a an upright stripped erm working , not working class a sort of governess right she had |
| 30 | So , leaning on Fand to keep from falling , Ruth crept like a cripple over the glassy floor , between the towers . |