Example sentences of "[verb] like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse news for complacent Germans is that Chancellor Helmut Kohl told parliament yesterday that Germany must overhaul its social , economic and educational systems if it is to remain a leading industrial power : Germany has the shortest working week , the oldest students and the youngest pensioners among industrial countries , and that this undermines competitiveness — ‘ a successful industrial nation , a nation with a future , can not be organised like a collective amusement park . ’ |
| 2 | She tended to jump like a nervous thoroughbred if he touched her arm or kissed her cheek . |
| 3 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 4 | It took about a day and a half for each of them , during which time my nerve-ends were pinging like a Du-gnorian soniharp . |
| 5 | I used to stagger off to work like a complete zombie until I decided to take a lesson from the Chinese . |
| 6 | ‘ This place stinks like a French pissoir . ’ |
| 7 | The earth cracked like a shattered windscreen . |
| 8 | A pile of boxes lay scattered like a demolished chimney . |
| 9 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 10 | Ben saw Rosten 's body tauten like a compressed coil . |
| 11 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 13 | Trapped like a guilty thing between them , Frankie lowered his head and took another bite from his worm-cake . |
| 14 | He began ‘ speaking like a six-year-old — even walking like a little boy ’ . |
| 15 | At first glance it looks like a straightforward consequence of overaccumulation ( chapter 11 ) . |
| 16 | With binoculars it looks like a faint blur , easy enough with × 7 , while with × 20 there is an indication of resolution into stars at its outer edges . |
| 17 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 18 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 19 | Seen from its ten o'clock , the Apache looks like a modern twin of the late Fifties . |
| 20 | It looks like a modern photograph to me . |
| 21 | Hamburg 's decision to follow suit looks like a shining opportunity for venturesome British outfits , but there are snags . |
| 22 | ‘ And you have your clothes draped around so that the place looks like a hand-me-down shop , ’ he grumbled . |
| 23 | The pool filter usually looks like a deep tray . |
| 24 | Fader — Looks like a normal block , but crumbles away when you step on it ! |
| 25 | Chomper — Looks like a normal block , but it eats poor ol' Rufus alive ! |
| 26 | He looks like a nice feller . ’ |
| 27 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
| 28 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 29 | Figure 2 in the paper looks like a classic example of unilateral reflux nephropathy rather than chronic pyelonephritis . |
| 30 | A duvet cover which looks like a contemporary painting , plain bright curtains and the whole effect softened with swooping net drapes . |