Example sentences of "[noun] like a child [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He picked it up , felt the warm light body under the plumage like a child 's small fist in a soft mitten . |
| 2 | Before them , at the edge of the cliff , crumbling against the skyline like a child 's sandcastle rendered amorphous by the advancing tide , was the ruined Benedictine abbey . |
| 3 | Behind the wide , full mouth , the arrogant stare of the eyes , the dark , crimped , Pre-Raphaelite hair streaming in the wind , was a careful delineation of the headland , its objects disposed and painted with the meticulous attention to detail of a sixteenth-century primitive ; the Victorian rectory , the ruined abbey , the half-demolished pillbox , the crippled trees , the small white mill like a child 's toy and , gaunt against a flaming evening sky , the stark outline of the power station . |
| 4 | Inside there were long banks of computers making a low musical noise like a child 's spinning top . |
| 5 | His feet curl , prehensile like a child 's . |
| 6 | hauled up its tail like a child 's drawing |
| 7 | The sun was a great cauldron of red , painting the edges of clouds that swung round ponderously in the sky like a child 's mobile . |
| 8 | The court can also prohibit certain steps — such as changing a child 's name — or deal with specific issues like a child 's religion , schooling or medical treatment . |
| 9 | But first , before the orders , true democracy had to be trotted out on the desk in front of the two men like a child 's board game , the dice tossed and a couple of moves played . |
| 10 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 11 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 12 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |