Example sentences of "[det] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sound like a mechanical saw hitting a nail , some like a knife being ground on a wheel or fat dropping on an overheated plate . |
| 2 | What sort of people they are , some like a lot of chatting , other people do n't . |
| 3 | There were some sort , some sort of er some like an insurance , now maybe only pay tuppence a tuppence |
| 4 | Some like the Sandvik Sandplate have introduced me to products that I might not have otherwise tried . |
| 5 | While most large Cichlids can be fed on any of these foods , some like the Theraps species , should have a diet that includes vegetable matter such as scalded cabbage and lettuce , or cooked peas . |
| 6 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 7 | ‘ I live this like a religion , ’ says Chris Eubank , anticipating a question about his commitment to his chosen profession . |
| 8 | It did n't matter to her , did it , so why , then , was she pursuing this like a dog with a bone ? |
| 9 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
| 10 | They treat this like a sort of Olympics |
| 11 | Japanese versions of this like the Singer . |
| 12 | So is this like the comedian 's own darkside acting out ? |
| 13 | Screwy sort of argument — I mean , what she was really saying was half right on the nail , and half like a whirlpool that sucks everything into it . ’ |
| 14 | cracked in half like a nut ; |
| 15 | He goes , do you know what one of them is , he goes , it 's just sort of like evolutionary thing between the ape and man , and he goes , it 's sort of part way between , and it 's sort of like some sort of creature , and it 's half like an ape and half like a human , and he goes , and you 're one of them he goes , you 're one of them Gran , he goes , you 've got a brain like one of them , as well , and Gran just like went oh shut up Ryan . |
| 16 | He goes , do you know what one of them is , he goes , it 's just sort of like evolutionary thing between the ape and man , and he goes , it 's sort of part way between , and it 's sort of like some sort of creature , and it 's half like an ape and half like a human , and he goes , and you 're one of them he goes , you 're one of them Gran , he goes , you 've got a brain like one of them , as well , and Gran just like went oh shut up Ryan . |
| 17 | Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales . |
| 18 | Traditionally , product development proceeds step by painstaking step , with one department handing work on to another like a baton in a relay race . |
| 19 | Certainly , after the extremely rapid evolution of brain and skull structure in the early hunting phase of human social development , the prime cause of behavioural change switched to rapid cultural evolution with strong feedback effects whereby one cultural shift produced another like a series of cascades ; agricultural surpluses needing markets , cities being formed , kings and statesmen gaining dominance , states and statecraft managing economies , and so on . |
| 20 | It had no roof and no floor , just hundreds of brick arches piled one on top of another like a team of acrobats . |
| 21 | ‘ THE man and boy walked along the London street trying to keep clear of the gutter , the man hurrying , clutching the boy with sharp , bony fingers , turning down one dark alley then another like a rat that has learned its way through a maze . ’ |
| 22 | The terraces of the casbah fell away down the hill , dove-tailed into one another like the streets and courts of a medieval city , all enclosed in a wall of the same red earth . |
| 23 | The tube lines do not , of course , lie at right angles to one another like the streets of Manhattan . |
| 24 | The shadows of the perpendicular stones lay parallel to one another like the teeth of a giant 's comb . |
| 25 | The Avignon 's bows had begun to swing rapidly through all the points of the compass as the river meandered on through the jungle , and the tips of the cathedral spires seemed to dart around the ship , popping up first in one quarter then another like the ears of an inquisitive rabbit trying to follow its progress . |
| 26 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 27 | ‘ I had the guitar built pretty much like a Strat body . |
| 28 | I mean , I 've made her look as much like a boy as I can so she can play her pipe , but there 's a limit to how much you can cheat the public . |
| 29 | Based on one of Aesop 's fables , it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare 's sonnets . |
| 30 | But with its space shuttle fairground rides and souvenir shop selling a variety of space junk — black hole jelly beans , lunar juggling balls , astronaut snacks , holographic jewellery — it looks pretty much like a theme park . |