Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , manual remuage is still widely used , but it is carried out on specially designed wooden boards , hinged together to stand like an inverted ‘ V ’ and known as pupitres ( the French for reading desks ) . |
| 2 | Eventually , I came to my senses and accepted that I was not fit enough to train like a 2:10 marathoner . |
| 3 | He was good enough to work like a black for the Tories , but would they offer him a seat ? |
| 4 | Pray God to purify and refine them , so that they can be sharp enough and strong enough to cleave like a great blade through the selfishness . |
| 5 | At the end of a taxing day on Twistleton Scar in Yorkshire , I could not leave before crowning the day with an ascent of the notoriously polished Candle Crack — only to skid like a bemused Bambi on ice and slither to the rocky moorland beneath . |
| 6 | ELDORADO , the BBC supersoap launched in a blaze of glory only to fizzle like a damp squib , CAN be saved . |
| 7 | But for the first time in decades the opposition parties are trying at least to look like a credible alternative government . |
| 8 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |