Example sentences of "[vb pp] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voice cracked like a whip now , and the woman jumped . |
| 2 | His voice cracked like a whip . |
| 3 | His apartment was decorated like a hunting lodge . |
| 4 | Nicholas was standing so still that the thick painted glass struck motionless light from his chain , and his face was glazed like a jug with mixed colours . |
| 5 | We passed a small public garden with tiny , stunted trees ; through an arch , the road wound upwards to the hotel , perched like a toy on medieval ramparts . |
| 6 | A Baluchistan gardener was working there , his voluminous turban perched like a cushion on top of his head , his baggy cotton ‘ jodhpurs ’ tan with dust . |
| 7 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 8 | For a moment , he took the scope back to the child perched like an Aunt Sally , then again to the horseman , who was coming directly towards the gun . |
| 9 | Boswell : ‘ One of them was frothed like a syllabub . |
| 10 | One country is full of people , people seen objectively and people seen subjectively , people in relation to myself , where the image is vivid , where the music is loud , sometimes overwhelmingly loud , and where the vision is nearly always distorted like a face in the back of a spoon … |
| 11 | Her stomach clenched like a fist , but there was nothing in there to come up . |
| 12 | Shiona 's stomach clenched like a fist within her . |
| 13 | Its clapper clenched like a boxing glove |
| 14 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 15 | " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude . |
| 16 | A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue . |
| 17 | The new railways ‘ slashed like a knife through the delicate tissues of a settled rural civilization . |
| 18 | Hanged like a chicken by his neck , in town . ’ |
| 19 | Among its prominent features , Moneo 's centre boasts an auditorium in which are planned concerts of composers such as Eric Satie , Stockhausen , John Cage and other friends or admirers of Miró , a large reference library , a waterpool and fountain , two external murals based upon the artist 's designs and four sharply angled rooms , excavated from a space loosely designed like a star , in which the foundation 's permanent collection of works by Miró will be rotated . |
| 20 | The depression of last week had lifted like a fever passing when the patient sleeps or asks for food . |
| 21 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 22 | receptus et admissus fuit in municipes et fratres guildae prefat burgi de Aberedeen — it was then sealed , rolled like a diploma and fastened to Johnson 's hat with a red ribbon . |
| 23 | She had looked like a spectre ; all the fight and vitality were gradually sucked from her . |
| 24 | The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust looked like a grave . |
| 25 | Looked like a cat when she stencilled them in . |
| 26 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 27 | Even so , he had looked like a ghost of his former self , all his ch'i , his vital energy , drained from him . |
| 28 | In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost . |
| 29 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 30 | The few people who were visible looked like a crew of spectres as the shadowed hollows in their faces shifted with the wavering of the flames . |