Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The casual cruelty of his words cut her like a knife . |
| 2 | The words cut me like a sword . |
| 3 | My eyes fail me like every other part of my body . ’ |
| 4 | keeps a cushion of air under the vessel so that really it hovers on top of the water and the air propellers drive it like an aeroplane |
| 5 | Throughout his country he is known as the ‘ Professor with the smile ’ , and when he returns to his village in central Vietnam , children follow him like the Pied Piper and call him ‘ Uncle Vo ’ . |
| 6 | It 's so time-consuming that most professional carvers avoid it like the plague . ’ |
| 7 | When top Bolshoi ballet dancer Yuri Vasyuchenko strides through the streets of Moscow , his compatriots treat him like a rock star . |