Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 2 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 3 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 4 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 5 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 6 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 7 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 8 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |
| 9 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |