Example sentences of "[adv] like a [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 | She was well aware that she purred inside like a cat if he even looked at her and the whole thing filled her with amazement . |
| 3 | I pour this over the biscuits , seal the bag , leaving a pocket of air inside like a balloon , and shake vigorously . |
| 4 | " You 're inside like a passenger . |
| 5 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 6 | Athelstan stared across at the bed post where a small block of wood on which the carving had rested had no v opened outwards like a door . |
| 7 | This rna strand is called ribosome , and is somewhat like a computer tape which the rna can zip through to specify the correct amino acid . |
| 8 | This spotter was positioned on the canteen roof , and to house him was built a wooden structure somewhat like a pillbox with a hinged ‘ porthole ’ in the roof , to give him a clear 360 ° view . |
| 9 | To the north of this island is a pinnacle-shaped stack known as Sail Rock because it looks somewhat like a ship under sail . |
| 10 | ‘ Like Paul the hermit , alone like a bird on his rock , naked except for his hairs . |
| 11 | Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon . |
| 12 | He slapped his palms together like a conjuror . |
| 13 | The deeper excavations produced the first complete fossil Bradyodont ( broadtoothed ) Ratfish to be found in Britain and for the fist time it was possible to see how five separately named fossil fragments previously supposed to belong to five different creatures actually fitted together like a jigsaw to form one . |
| 14 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 15 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 16 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 17 | The individual plates of the stem slot together like a stack of coins ; they are termed ossicles . |
| 18 | Donkeys graze by fields of breezy sugar cane , and minarets rise phoenix-like from seas of palm trees , their fronds swaying together like a corps-de-ballet . |
| 19 | The Swinging ‘ Sixties , Peace and Love and the Beatles go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 20 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 21 | Jonathon had a high , airy attic , freshly whitewashed , with a little iron bed with a cover made of knitted squares sewn together like a refugee blanket . |
| 22 | " Fever and the jungle go together like a carriage and pair , Chuck , " said the senator lightly . |
| 23 | Then when it is touched it immediately snaps the shells together like a steel trap . |
| 24 | and only like a village but er |
| 25 | But it was really , I mean it , it meant of course that the other people on the boat could have some enjoyment as well , cos I mean , there 's nothing worse i if you if there 's only one rod out , or two rods out th those boats there 's only like a couple of rods out int there on , on |
| 26 | Black tie and a waistcoat would never make Charlie look like a playboy , only like a bartender . |
| 27 | It 's only like a plaster of paris stuff is n't it ? |
| 28 | Cos I mean it 's only like a siren , it 's only going ooh ooh ooh in n it ? |
| 29 | Cos I says to her , I says , do you want a turkey sandwich and well , there was only like a quarter of a tin left . |
| 30 | Such a cat can seem only like a toy . |