Example sentences of "[adv] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seen like a border in perhaps like a bit of pink and bit of grey on it and it 's like sort of scalloped edging |
| 2 | She was towed in like a liner by tugs , her hands and skirts clutched and pulled . |
| 3 | She 'd even given her a bed in her own place , brought her in like a waif from the streets in a gesture of stern and unsentimental charity . |
| 4 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 5 | He would put away the car quietly , leaving the garage open in case the thud of the door woke her , then sneak in like a thief at the back door . |
| 6 | No it was in er , in was in like a plaster of paris thing |
| 7 | The light footfalls of their human destroyer faded into the night , and the silence of the brooding trees closed in like a shroud over the scene of his latest carnage . |
| 8 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 9 | ‘ I just go in like a bull at a gate and most of the time it works . |
| 10 | Only Hugo , once again in me , part of me , driving in like a needle into flesh , will stop this particular distress . |
| 11 | Oh Richard I love having you round here , when you come in like a light in the dark how I enjoy your painting , your polite conversations , the way that you move it 's all so |
| 12 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 13 | This spotter was positioned on the canteen roof , and to house him was built a wooden structure somewhat like a pillbox with a hinged ‘ porthole ’ in the roof , to give him a clear 360 ° view . |
| 14 | To the north of this island is a pinnacle-shaped stack known as Sail Rock because it looks somewhat like a ship under sail . |
| 15 | ‘ Like Paul the hermit , alone like a bird on his rock , naked except for his hairs . |
| 16 | The head is made , erm , the tail , all the bits are made and eventually they , they all stick together like a kind of Lego , and the result is a new bacteria is made and this goes on until eventually the cell , there are so many inside the cell , that erm the cell just ruptures , when there 're about two hundred or so , the cell is now bulging with T four bacteria , it ruptures and releases a whole blob of new ones to start the cycle all over again . |
| 17 | The individual plates of the stem slot together like a stack of coins ; they are termed ossicles . |
| 18 | But it was really , I mean it , it meant of course that the other people on the boat could have some enjoyment as well , cos I mean , there 's nothing worse i if you if there 's only one rod out , or two rods out th those boats there 's only like a couple of rods out int there on , on |
| 19 | It 's only like a plaster of paris stuff is n't it ? |
| 20 | Cos I says to her , I says , do you want a turkey sandwich and well , there was only like a quarter of a tin left . |
| 21 | The Clairol model is the only spa to offer a choice of three speeds , the first of which causes your toe hairs to sway like daffodils in a light breeze ; the second bubbles gently like a pot of mung beans on simmer , and the third , to be used only when one feels particularly in need of a good rebirth , can cause orgasm in your achilles tendons . |
| 22 | There was no one in sight and the canal was deserted , the water slopping gently like a cup of black coffee in an unsteady hand . |
| 23 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 24 | If you are walking in an area where adders are found — dry heath and common land — then as long as you do not go along like a herd of elephants there is a fair chance of coming across one . |
| 25 | The train rolls along like a drunk on beer . |
| 26 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 27 | If you are inclined to race along like a commentator at a horse race try to slow down and introduce a pause or two . |
| 28 | " Those are rabbits down there , trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts . |
| 29 | Today all three ‘ get along like a house on fire ’ . |
| 30 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |