Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , what blew against my ankles like tumbleweed that afternoon was not the crinkle of Mumm NV but the discarded skin of my former being , my beetle carapace , my sloughed and umber appurtenances . |
| 2 | If I were to try to explain the little I understood about alchemy it would run through my fingers like water . |
| 3 | Even though my time in Australia brings back memories the journey sticks in my mind like glue . |
| 4 | My back was like a mangled corkscrew , my legs like chicken wishbones . |
| 5 | I tapped my nose like solitaire was the only game in town . |
| 6 | The smoke wafted up my nose like incense . |
| 7 | " I 'd be a bit of a knobbly mouthful , " I ventured , trying to keep things light , feeling even then that this talk was closing over my head like water and likely to drown me . |
| 8 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 9 | Am I to stick in my flat like bait — the tethered goat waiting for the tiger to pounce ? |
| 10 | My sacking hurt me , my family and my friends like hell |
| 11 | ‘ But it hurt me , my family and my friends like hell . |
| 12 | My heart sank into my boots like Granny 's lumpy porridge as we made our way to Grindlewood for a day 's dusting and polishing . |
| 13 | The girls at my school like soul music , and singers like Neneh Cherry and Janet Jackson . |
| 14 | Violent twinges shot up my nerves like steel lightning . |
| 15 | Therefore I have set my face like flint . |
| 16 | Girls , caught by the arm , have snow rubbed into their hair like salt into a herring . |
| 17 | Why did her mouth go dry and her treacherous heart start pounding away inside her chest like war drums in the jungle ? |
| 18 | Everyone had seen the dead dog on the path , bloated and grey and bald where it lay in the mud , and the heaps of excrement , all teeming with the same flies that were sharing their food : and the association flooded their throats like vomit . |
| 19 | Hermione was glowing radiant in the dusk , an intense silver light , vibrantly running in the tight curls of her hair like neon , in the soft pinker palms of her hands like candlelight , in her eyes and teeth like electricity , and across all her whole skin like fluorescence . |
| 20 | Flora waited , her heart like lead in her chest , for the inevitable reaction to her shameful and laughable parentage . |
| 21 | Her heart like lead , she tried . |
| 22 | The sun picked the deep brown tints out of her hair and made her skin like honey . |
| 23 | His mouth played on her face , brushing her throat , her eyes , moving over her skin like fire , back to her mouth again . |
| 24 | She was dressed in pale grey with a black braid trimming ; it was a distinguished outfit , and her features were pale and fine , her skin like ivory . |
| 25 | She thought she heard him praise the tinge of blood rising in her cheek , like the breast of chaffinches , and smell her skin like peach blossom and orange together . |
| 26 | The contents of the swimfeeder sprayed from their case like shotgun pellets and landed with a scattering plop in the middle of the river . |
| 27 | Mom says it thickens their blood like gravy on the heat . ’ |
| 28 | He saw his own words sink deep into her mind like water into a secret thirst ; but her face was motionless and indifferent . |
| 29 | Dotty 's slender stock of patience suddenly ran out at her heels like gunpowder . |
| 30 | There was desperation in Lou 's eyes and she clutched at Melissa 's arm while words poured from her mouth like water from an overflowing vessel . |