Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bitter laugh rose up like bile in her throat . |
| 2 | Amongst the curricular areas identified as in need of attention was the school library , so that the project " came along like money from heaven " . |
| 3 | He believed that he got up and felt his feet sink through the floor while the music from down below came up like vapour and was breathed rather than heard . |
| 4 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 5 | Bird-lime rained down like sleet . |
| 6 | so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge |
| 7 | By then it was blowing a full gale from the west , the wind slamming down off the mountains with katabatic blasts that hammered the luminous white of the water with such fury that it splayed out like shot , a reminder that the heights west of the port were almost six hundred metres high , the first ski-run only eight kilometres away by car . |
| 8 | In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach . |
| 9 | All find their way to the dirty hollow ‘ , followed by cheers that echoed out like firing . |
| 10 | ‘ Those who call upon great powers are consumed like tinder — emptied out like water . |
| 11 | The words tumbled out like machine gun fire . |
| 12 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 13 | More flakes sifted down like meal , sifted and sifted , drifting in at the embrasure and lying on the flagstones , unmelting . |
| 14 | United started off like express trains despite that too weak lay off , in the second minute , Martin Foyle broke clear into the box on the left side , and from a tight angle goalkeeper Bob Bolder blocked the ball with his feet ; a minute later , Les Phillips ' shot was diverted over the crossbar by the foot of Alan Kernigan . |
| 15 | Her eyelids flew up like window blinds wound too tightly . |
| 16 | Morrissey and Marr looked down like father figures . |
| 17 | He suddenly became aware of a volley of shots from behind him , and all three bodies fell back like tin ducks on a rifle range . |
| 18 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ The whole room lit up like daylight only it was red . |
| 20 | The captain 's eyes narrowed a little ; a flare of blue fire shot out like lightning from the back of her skull down towards her left hand . |
| 21 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 22 | Tyres ended up like bitumen snowballs . ’ |
| 23 | Without the slightest shred of evidence , those nebulous question marks stood out like warning beacons . |
| 24 | A brilliant moon flooded the whole valley in white bright light , so that the houses and cottages stood out like toy models , relieved here and there by squares of glowing orange where someone had failed to draw a curtain . |
| 25 | As you can imagine , the news that Hadwick had an owl in school spread round like wildfire . |