Example sentences of "[be] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are rather like a water heater and storage cylinder in one . |
| 2 | Most are rather like a sandwich with the steel springs embedded in a honeycomb of foam . |
| 3 | Residents should have their own rooms and access to bathroom and WC facilities , preferably of their own , or shared with no more than one or two others ; tenants sharing a house are not like a family of adults and children in an ordinary house where intimacy allows much more comfortable sharing of facilities |
| 4 | Are just like a couple of tots . |
| 5 | ‘ These goats are just like a lot of prep . |
| 6 | " You 're inside like a passenger . |
| 7 | Grattan Direct Line and we 're just like a company Grattan but Grattan own it sort of thing and basically what it is , it 's a daily delivery to the door . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're not like a horse where you have a rein . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're more like a sister to Sarah now , ’ John said . |
| 10 | You 're more like a razor . |
| 11 | They they 're off like a shot , are n't they . |
| 12 | They 're up like a lark the next morning . |
| 13 | Forget the last six months , admit it 's been more like a year , remove yourself from the desperate turns on the rack of rejection … at least you know how to love . |
| 14 | Miss Evans said , ‘ You might say he 's been more like a father to me than a brother . ’ |
| 15 | I 've only been here a matter of hours , but I feel as though it 's been more like a week ! ’ |
| 16 | and er if Paul has had a phone call from one of these woman then he 's been off like a shot ! |
| 17 | The genes , as we shall see , are more like a recipe than like a blueprint ; and a recipe , moreover , that is obeyed not by the developing embryo as a whole , but by each cell or each local cluster of dividing cells . |
| 18 | ‘ To be cultured ’ , it is imagined , is to be rather like a pearl , understated , refined and in the best possible taste . |
| 19 | The place would be less like a fridge by now if you had . ’ |
| 20 | he said ( keeping his voice down ; there were people nearby ) , " but I do n't want to be just like a brother to you . " |
| 21 | It is a paradox too , that because Christianity has been able to drop any mention of the physical cycles of women 's lives , secular culture has ended up with an idea that true liberation means we can forget ‘ those difficult days ’ , and ‘ carry on as normal ’ ; assuming , perhaps , that to be normal is to be more like a man . |
| 22 | The song " Why ca n't a woman be more like a man ? " was a special favourite , appealing to her sense of fun . |
| 23 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 24 | ‘ It will be more like a home game for us than France as they have only sold about 20,000 tickets , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It would seem to be more like a week ! |
| 26 | But if terms were agreed he would be off like a shot . |
| 27 | Of course you 'd be panic stricken , your heart would be beating wildly , you would be sweating , shaking , feeling faint , and without a further thought you 'd be off like a shot . |
| 28 | Now that 's a real nuisance with a working dog because it does n't matter where you have your beasts gathered or which direction you want to drive your sheep , a rabbit is always likely to pop up and Meg would be off like a shot . |
| 29 | I 'll be off like a shot the moment my time 's up . ’ |
| 30 | As soon as you realise that , I suspect you 'll be off like a shot . |