Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon . |
| 2 | The screens should be removed from the reception desk to make it more friendly and less like a bank . |
| 3 | In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole . |
| 4 | She seemed to be eased by talking of her daughter , and by the time she stopped , apologetically , and drank some tea poured for her by Catherine , she looked exhausted but less like a wraith . |
| 5 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 6 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 7 | John Smith sounds more and more like a left-of-centre Conservative minister . |
| 8 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 9 | It was grey and just like an old bag . |
| 10 | The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers . |
| 11 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 12 | And your arms grow all hairy and muscly like a man 's and you get very keen on boxing and tossing the caber . ’ |