Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solid bark parted like a mist , closed like a clam . |
| 2 | The Perk dropped like a stone . |
| 3 | A Baluchistan gardener was working there , his voluminous turban perched like a cushion on top of his head , his baggy cotton ‘ jodhpurs ’ tan with dust . |
| 4 | Her heart dropped like a stone and somehow she got to her feet . |
| 5 | All attention was fixed on a car shaped like a bullet . |
| 6 | In the quiet of the huge place the horse performed like a champion and Felipe looked like another person from the man she now knew . |
| 7 | Ideally we need a small instrument worn like a wristwatch which would indicate the loudness of background noise . |
| 8 | The figure landed like a cat , whirling , the knife hinging at Delaney 's exposed belly . |
| 9 | All this assumes grown-up artists and a grown-up public , whereas too much of the recent ‘ pop vs posh ’ media rumpus sounded like a nursery squabble between absolute beginners . |
| 10 | A single glance at the crucified Christ , the worshipped corpse : a figure bent like a branch whose shape has changed in the stretching agony of fire . |
| 11 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 12 | She was wearing a red velvet skirt cut like a skating skirt , with an alderman 's neck chain slung round her hips and clanking between her legs . |
| 13 | The rain crashed against the windows , and the wind screamed like an animal in the night . |
| 14 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 15 | This killer dressed like a popinjay , sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies . |
| 16 | ‘ The boy and girl are with you , ’ the Trapper repeated like a man slow of thought , to whom the words had at last revealed their significance . |
| 17 | The media had recognised a good subject in the white-haired surgeon in his plus-twos and St. Andrew 's pullover , with his characteristic swing and follow-through — his body leaning forward and the club aimed like a rifle at the flag . |
| 18 | To his annoyance the sensitive instrument failed like a night-flower wilting in too bright a light . |
| 19 | I was crouched in the entrance to a large German dug-out shaped like a frying pan as a second salvo roared overhead shaking the ground violently , the explosion causing parts of trees and other heavy objects to fall onto the roof of the dug-out . |
| 20 | There was a neat candlewick bedspread and a funny nightdress case shaped like a rabbit . |
| 21 | The furniture was all his too , those cabinets with bulging fronts and curved legs , chairs with buttoned backs , a velvet-covered love seat , a big oval table supported on a wooden base shaped like a vase , mirrors framed in gilt , pale mauve and green watercolours and dark portraits in oils . |
| 22 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 23 | At the heart of the enormous room an ornate marble building shaped like a pineapple squatted on a disc of steel . |
| 24 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 25 | The ‘ Red Caliph ’ , as he is called , wears a beard shaped like a crescent moon . |
| 26 | The question hung like a hawk . |
| 27 | Standing on the sand is a beach hut built like a mini-mosque . |
| 28 | The raindrops against the window sounded like a handful of gravel being hurled at the glass by the strong wind . |
| 29 | All round the assembly of brothers waiting and watching with held breath , the great shudder and sigh passed like a gust of wind , or the surging of a wave up the shore , and then , like the shattering of the wave in spray , disintegrated into a whispering , stirring murmur as they shifted , nudged one another , shook with relief and a suggestion of hysterical emotion between laughter and tears . |
| 30 | The young man — not a man at all , in fact , but a boy dressed like a man , bearing himself like a man — made a strange gesture : holding one hand at head-height , he struck it with the other , palm against palm , a glancing blow . |