Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 2 | If you approach production from school or university , your academic qualifications will be noticed and you will give yourself a push up the ladder if you gain more knowledge of your subject by attending a course in printing at your local polytechnic or somewhere like the London School of Printing . |
| 3 | These are flying lanes , arranged more or less like the lanes of a superhighway , each given a name and a number , all clearly designated on maps , and designed by the International Civil Aviation Organization 's Air Navigation Commission to allow civil aircraft to fly in relative safety when far from land . |
| 4 | ‘ Or just like a doctor , ’ she retorted . |
| 5 | The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers . |
| 6 | At first she looked embarrassed , then she spoke to him , glancing over her shoulder once or twice like a child afraid of being caught . |
| 7 | You said that just like a Jersey bean now look my men ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They turned and waited silently as Jackie Tiptoe 's distinctive shape , looking in the queer light more than ever like a gargoyle escaped from a cathedral , made its way across the grass with a swift , hiccupping run . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 14 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 15 | Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 16 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 17 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 18 | Pike was on the other , jumping up and down like a man with a swarm of bees in his underpants . |
| 19 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 20 | She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’ |
| 21 | Too busy jumping up and down like a lunatic ( along with the rest of most of the crowd ) . |
| 22 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 23 | Annoyed at the fellow leaping up and down like a jack-in-the-box , wishing that he could escape as easily , and regretful that he had not demanded his urgent message for somewhat earlier , the Prince of Wales shifted uneasily in his plush upright seat in the ballroom to which they had adjourned . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , do stop bobbing up and down like a yo-yo , ’ she said . |
| 25 | In addition , the pass rates go up and down like a yo-yo . |
| 26 | You 're turning sound up and down like a yo-yo ! |
| 27 | Mm , it would bounce up and down like a yo-yo |
| 28 | Our monies going to go up and down like a yo-yo really . |
| 29 | You 're up and down like a yo-yo ! |
| 30 | Being a local councillor suspended and I 've been up and down like a yo-yo , as regarding the principles of this government . |