Example sentences of "[adv] like a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher came in like a colossus and the class shrank into a shivering line . |
| 2 | She was well aware that she purred inside like a cat if he even looked at her and the whole thing filled her with amazement . |
| 3 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 4 | The Swinging ‘ Sixties , Peace and Love and the Beatles go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 5 | Fifty years ago , when the world was younger and sex was an altogether simpler if scarcer commodity , there was a popular song , the lyrics of which brooked no argument : ‘ Love and marriage , love and marriage , go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 6 | " Fever and the jungle go together like a carriage and pair , Chuck , " said the senator lightly . |
| 7 | and only like a village but er |
| 8 | It also gives the animal unusually short front legs and long hind legs , and an abnormally small anus , so that it hops along like a rabbit and suffers from constipation . |
| 9 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 10 | She had the unusual skill of being able to pull the end down like a tapir when she was angry . |
| 11 | Cup of tea would go down like a bomb but |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose Mrs C. thought I 'd be swilling it down like an alcoholic if she left it in the room . |
| 13 | The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is superficially so like a fish that it is known locally as the Congo eel . |
| 15 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 16 | Whereas more women than before can choose whether to work or not after the child-bearing years , raised expectations of living standards may make this feel less like a choice and more of a basic requirement . |
| 17 | Wordsworth 's ‘ retirement ’ to the Lakes begins to look less like a retreat than a strategic withdrawal to ensure survival . |
| 18 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 19 | Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings . |
| 20 | He thought it appeared less like a college than a ‘ set of separate departments ’ . |
| 21 | A teacher who does nothing but teach and leaves morals , religion , and entertainment to the family and the home is more like an expert , less like a nanny or a parent . |
| 22 | Less like an aircraft than a kettle , |
| 23 | Of course , you ca n't think exactly like a keyboard or a sax player would when you 're playing the guitar — the instrument will always shape the way you think to some extent . |
| 24 | What I 'm saying is , ‘ Here am I sitting in a tin can ’ sounded exactly like a Simon and Garfunkel record , and the rest of the song was lifts from everything else . |
| 25 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
| 26 | Their car skidded in gravel , flipped up and over like a pancake and lodged itself in a sundered tank . |
| 27 | Just like a dance and they sung and they had just in each station you could hear them in Papa Stronsay we could hear them singing and dancing . |
| 28 | You 'll come back , and we 'll love one another forever , and live happily ever after , just like a prince and princess in a fairy tale . " |
| 29 | If you look at the particles inside the nucleus you have a proton , which is a positively charged particle , and it 's about two thousand times more massive than an electron , and you have also have another type of particle in there called a neutron , and a neutron is to all practical intents and purposes it 's just like a proton except that it has no charge , and so the whole mass of the atom is actually concentrated inside the nucleus . |
| 30 | Behaviour can help or hinder just like a hammer that can be used to construct or destroy . |