Example sentences of "[adv] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , kinda like a bigger version of me … ’ ) and what happens when you pull out but the condom stays in . |
| 2 | Her decision was made on ‘ kinda like a mass exodus trip ’ from New York with her natural father , Amhadu Jah ( a Sierra Leonese percussionist who lives in Stockholm ) , and his family , to West Africa . |
| 3 | She was wound up , jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle . |
| 4 | To manufacture tesserae a blade , somewhat like a broad chisel-blade , can be used . |
| 5 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
| 6 | It was all like an insane nightmare . |
| 7 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 8 | But that this is not the whole explanation can be seen from the fact that the members of Annales do not treat ‘ l'histoire totale ’ as a homogeneous body of facts and theories which all fit neatly together like a vast jigsaw . |
| 9 | When the door swung open , I could see nothing but bars of light , curving together like a luminous zebra skin high above . |
| 10 | It 's only like a little village is n't it ? |
| 11 | ‘ I decided it was sufficiently like a single-lead junction for the public to believe it was one and accordingly that it would not be wise to proceed with the scheme . ’ |
| 12 | He padded his bedroom — literally like a padded cell — so that he would n't hear the noise of traffic outside . |
| 13 | She flopped backwards suddenly like a broken doll . |
| 14 | Through these chutes of slates you could inspect the weather , which was making a comeback of the stalled-career variety , the sun all rusty and out of condition , glowing then failing suddenly like a damp torch . |
| 15 | They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good . |
| 16 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 17 | Who said ‘ I do not want this to look too much like a cynical photocall ’ ? |
| 18 | It was a very fluid , much like a naval war . |
| 19 | It looks very much like a right angle . |
| 20 | And they were still chatting comfortably with each other when she rejoined them in the living-room , feeling very much like a spare part . |
| 21 | This tight-knit society functions much like a multi-celled organism whose individual cells must remain sensitive to their respective roles in ensuring the continuing health of the whole . |
| 22 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 23 | What 's more , this would be so small that it would behave much like a neutralised proton , or ‘ neutron ’ . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that any component of the nervous system carries out exactly the same computation as the zero-crossing detector described in the previous paragraph but it is possible to make a simpler device that works very much like a zero-crossing detector . |
| 25 | The Femidom is a new female condom looking very much like a larger version of the male variety , except these things are ribbed at both ends , a bit like a fisherman 's keep net . |
| 26 | It has good insulation and feels very much like a down bag . |
| 27 | This gaping wound that bereavement inflicts on the emotions will react , and should be treated , very much like a Physical wound . |
| 28 | Because of their large size and numbers ( they can look very much like a large serving of spaghetti ! ) , they can completely obstruct an intestine . |
| 29 | The archway looks much like a giant length of intestine . |
| 30 | It may be a cliché , but the compactness , the lack of weight , abundance and responsiveness of power , massively powerful brakes and rigidity of suspension all add up to a car that feels very much like a big kart . |