Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] like a [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 | ‘ Or just like a doctor , ’ she retorted . |
| 3 | The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers . |
| 4 | At first she looked embarrassed , then she spoke to him , glancing over her shoulder once or twice like a child afraid of being caught . |
| 5 | You said that just like a Jersey bean now look my men ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and only like a village but er |
| 16 | The screens should be removed from the reception desk to make it more friendly and less like a bank . |
| 17 | Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon . |
| 18 | Silence speaks loudly and frighteningly like a ghost . |
| 19 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |
| 20 | He was hungry all his life for friends and friendly environments , vilifying and imploring as he shifted about restlessly and unpredictably like a Lawrence , never finding the right place , the right person . |
| 21 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 22 | Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry ? |
| 23 | Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup . |
| 24 | The eyes shifted back and forth like a metronome . |
| 25 | Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside . |
| 26 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 27 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 30 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |