Example sentences of "[det] like a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I live this like a religion , ’ says Chris Eubank , anticipating a question about his commitment to his chosen profession . |
| 5 | It did n't matter to her , did it , so why , then , was she pursuing this like a dog with a bone ? |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | They treat this like a sort of Olympics |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | cracked in half like a nut ; |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Traditionally , product development proceeds step by painstaking step , with one department handing work on to another like a baton in a relay race . |
| 12 | It had no roof and no floor , just hundreds of brick arches piled one on top of another like a team of acrobats . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Based on one of Aesop 's fables , it was as much like a limerick as one of Shakespeare 's sonnets . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside . |
| 18 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 19 | You know when there 's like that like a border of virgin snow to stop you , well we went flying into it . |
| 20 | Candy would pounce on that like a terrier , demanding to know why she did n't just tell him to get lost . |
| 21 | Is that like a dock leaf when you ? |
| 22 | What 's E P T , is that like a network ? |
| 23 | If the pre-existing law is permitted to prevail , it will serve to emphasise how little like a code the Act really is . |
| 24 | As my one hundred and eighty-nine pounds in their six feet frame laboured up behind him , not for the first time I smiled , remembering the advice of the South American Handbook to ‘ try and look as little like a tourist as possible ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice … houses and shops go on for ever , and at the back of them , blotting out all the rest of the world , rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs , at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot . |
| 26 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 27 | Gus did not sound at all like a man recently revived from drowning as he said with sharp disquiet : ‘ Right , that disposes of how I got out , and I 'm duly grateful , believe me . |
| 28 | Besides , in other ways it was not at all like a wave motion . |
| 29 | Erm also if you look at entertainment , like James Saville calls himself Jimmy Saville , Terence Wogan is Terry Wogan , so but then you look at people like Charlie Chaplin , when he was doing his comedian role he was c he called himself Charlie Chaplin , and when he 's directing films he called himself Charles Chaplin , so maybe it 's all like a bit of a serious thing . |
| 30 | And when she went inside the cottage she saw that every room was spotlessly clean and bright with flowers — nothing at all like a witch 's lair . |