Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had she behaved like a temptress in a fifties movie ? |
| 2 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 3 | The fact was he felt like a child again , powerless against forces he could not understand — let alone control . |
| 4 | Was it shaped like a fish , a parrot or a heart ? |
| 5 | Who was it crumbled like a piece of stale matzo under the onslaught from ben Issachar ? |