Example sentences of "[to-vb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 2 | I did n't suggest coming on this heap of a boat to work like a house-servant , is n't that right , Robbie ? ’ |
| 3 | I did not want to appear like a delivery man . |
| 4 | Lionan brought to bay like a wildcat , eyes blazing . |
| 5 | The grooms had taken away our horses and I did not wish to stand like a servant on the freezing forecourt of the tower . |
| 6 | She had no choice but to stand like a gazelle frozen by the cruel gaze of the lion . |
| 7 | So are restrictions about to tighten like a drysuit seal around our necks ? |
| 8 | She was no ingénue , to gape like a child at its first Guy Fawkes night , but the sheer volume of erupting sound and colour held her in its thrall , her face as rapt as those of the silent crowds around her . |
| 9 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 10 | Yet even as an ardent Darwinian , keen to prove by minute observation how seeds were adapted to travel on wind , water or in the maws of animals , he continues to write like an angel and to soar like a philosopher . |
| 11 | The first spasm in the shake seemed to come like a pistol crack , or maybe it was a board in Jim 's shop that snapped against a wall . |
| 12 | Neither does the child learn to communicate like a chimpanzee or a canary . |
| 13 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 14 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
| 15 | One that gradually took the ice from her veins and relaxed her until she felt as snug as a bug and ready to purr like a kitten . |
| 16 | Program files are computer programs which allow your machine to behave like a word processor or a spreadsheet , for example . |
| 17 | Once a continuous network of such elongated particles has been formed , the ‘ whipped ’ cream will start to behave like a solid . |
| 18 | There 'd been no need to behave like a fool . |
| 19 | Some designers felt that wood ‘ ought ’ to behave like a metal . |
| 20 | It 's absurd to expect a heron to behave like a blackbird ! " |
| 21 | You 've got to learn to behave like a duchess ! ’ |
| 22 | Time to behave like a policeman . |
| 23 | Compton Mackenzie truly said that while it is easy for a woman to behave like a man , it is impossible for her to behave like a gentleman . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady . |
| 25 | When he declared , ‘ I resign myself to everything and put up with everything ’ , he was rejoicing in his discovery that to behave like a child sometimes worked . |
| 26 | The latter was in practice obliged to pledge that it would consult and inform governments at all stages of any initiative , that it would cooperate more closely with the Council of Ministers , and that it would not seek in the future to behave like a government . |
| 27 | Compton Mackenzie truly said that while it is easy for a woman to behave like a man , it is impossible for her to behave like a gentleman . |
| 28 | In resisting the sideways forces the daggerboard starts to behave like a sail and a force is set up between the high and low pressure sides of the foil ( F1 ) . |
| 29 | But you do n't want him to behave like a husband ? |
| 30 | Avoir ses ours , to have one 's bears , means ‘ to have the curse ’ ( presumably because at such times a woman is supposed to behave like a bear with a sore head ) . |