Example sentences of "[adv] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what did John look like perhaps like a little Billy Bunter did n't he ? |
| 2 | Her decision was made on ‘ kinda like a mass exodus trip ’ from New York with her natural father , Amhadu Jah ( a Sierra Leonese percussionist who lives in Stockholm ) , and his family , to West Africa . |
| 3 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 4 | Keep a baby in like a warm baby-gro |
| 5 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 6 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 7 | Then the Birmingham Small Arms Company revealed after many a summer that the car she sat in like a burnished throne , and even some of the furs she wore , were not provided by her Prince Charming , Sir Bernard , but by them , the nuts and bolts firm of which he was chairman , as a business expense which they were no longer happy to provide . |
| 8 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 9 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 10 | Then it comes in like a tingling feeling . |
| 11 | Mark had blown in like a fresh breeze , hinting , with wild scents , of other delightful worlds where the air was free , pure , invigorating . |
| 12 | Apart from the shame of being kept in like a naughty schoolboy , the constant automatic repetition of the lines taken out of the context of the play could often lodge them in the leakiest actor 's mind . |
| 13 | It was a real Fanny-by-gaslight relic of the old city , redolent of gin and vomit and brutal crimes , and the fog had crept in like an old friend and made a dripping urinal of the walls . |
| 14 | She had enticed them in like an old witch , Val said , by talking volubly to them in the garden about the quietness of the place , giving them each a small , gold , furry apricot from the espaliered trees along the curving brick wall . |
| 15 | Before the school teacher could answer , there was another rap on the door and Beasley scampered in like an overgrown puppy , casting inquisitive glances at Jim Lancaster and the two police officers . |
| 16 | She was wound up , jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle . |
| 17 | To manufacture tesserae a blade , somewhat like a broad chisel-blade , can be used . |
| 18 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
| 19 | It was all like an insane nightmare . |
| 20 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 21 | But that this is not the whole explanation can be seen from the fact that the members of Annales do not treat ‘ l'histoire totale ’ as a homogeneous body of facts and theories which all fit neatly together like a vast jigsaw . |
| 22 | When the door swung open , I could see nothing but bars of light , curving together like a luminous zebra skin high above . |
| 23 | It 's only like a little village is n't it ? |
| 24 | ‘ I decided it was sufficiently like a single-lead junction for the public to believe it was one and accordingly that it would not be wise to proceed with the scheme . ’ |
| 25 | He padded his bedroom — literally like a padded cell — so that he would n't hear the noise of traffic outside . |
| 26 | The imagination does n't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree . |
| 27 | The wind was moving everything along like a nervous policeman . |
| 28 | Now run along like a good girl and do n't be late tomorrow . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Come along like a sensible girl and have a nice cup of coffee in the sitting-room , where we can talk . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And bouncing along like a rubber ball . ’ |