Example sentences of "[adv] like a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat like a dolls ' house the building was formerly the Congregational Mission Hall opened in 1872 . |
| 2 | Well I do n't think that 's much like a rolls royce . |
| 3 | For all Arnim 's reputation for acerbic wit , in characters and style and ( mutatis mutandis ) in plot , this abridged version is exactly like a girls ' school story of 50 or 60 years ago , even to Lady Caroline 's nickname , Scrap , and the one amazing coincidence that makes fulfilment possible for Rose . |
| 4 | It was exactly like a children 's tea party , complete with squabbling and displays of temperament . |
| 5 | During the mid phases of running stride , the carbon plate contracts , just like a vaulters bent pole , to collect and store energy . |
| 6 | Thick Ethernet uses a DB-15 connector with 15 pins , rather like a games port . |
| 7 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 8 | It 's more like a childrens ' afternoon TV show than a science lesson , but there 's a message in every device . |
| 9 | That sounds more like an EastEnders plot . |
| 10 | Yeah , and they 're only out for a few minutes and they 're fed up out there as well , and backwards and forwards like a fiddlers elbow go on I want to put those lupins in |
| 11 | It was magnificently low-slung , almost like a sports car , but with four plush leather seats and a thrusting bonnet . |
| 12 | each cluster is careering forward like a bolas . |