Example sentences of "[vb base] like a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean like a soldier 's salute , sir ? ’ |
| 2 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 3 | ‘ Dumb , face like a monkey 's bum … ’ |
| 4 | The train ambled out of the flat New Jersey landscape where the towns had a shapless unrooted look like a child 's motel village that must be cleared away by suppertime . |
| 5 | They 're becoming even easier to pick up once delicensed nowadays , thanks to the invasion of the upstart Metrocabs , which drive like a Panzer , look like an undertaker 's second-best hearse and give the punters a ride which makes them think they 're in a telephone-box on castors . |
| 6 | This is set in the hillside below the actual Dentelles — a line of rock blades which run like a dragon 's spine along the top of the hill above the wine village of Gigondas , near Carpentras . |
| 7 | Here are some attractive places to bear in mind when you feel like a day 's outing . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like a giant 's yo-yo — as if there 's someone up there just dangling me on a string . |
| 9 | Ed and Johnny were sporting foolish party hat and blowing those paper things that uncurl like a chameleon 's tongue and go baarrrp . |