Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 2 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 3 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 4 | Differs from Little Stint in appearing more like a miniature Common Sandpiper ( p. 133 ) , and in having white outer tail feathers and greenish-yellow legs . |
| 5 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ There he was a-sitting there like a scaly old bull . ’ |
| 7 | The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) . |
| 8 | Lee was prodding at the hide with a stick , Caspar leaping about like a mad thing . |
| 9 | he 's walking round like a lost soul |
| 10 | The accepted reason for the inflation of this fish is as a reaction against threat , and indeed , looking rather like a spiny conker with eyeballs , a fully inflated Puffer is a fearsome sight . |
| 11 | We found the nest derelict after the last bad weather , the hedgehog dead and deflated , looking rather like a cheap toupee among the leaves . |
| 12 | Gastropods of this type are characterized by strong ribs produced into spines , a long aperture , and relatively low spire looking rather like a Mayan pyramid . |
| 13 | Looking rather like a small jigsaw , the green-bodied machine weighs only 1.1kg , not significantly more than manual tackers . |
| 14 | ‘ Fei Yen ? ’ said the boy , bowing elegantly like a tiny courtier . |
| 15 | ‘ And bouncing along like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 16 | When he came into the labs , Corbett was already poised over a crucible of smoking liquid , looking less like a mad professor than an incompetent short-order cook . |
| 17 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 18 | She bit her lip , the significance of what she was seeing sinking home like a jagged knife between her ribs . |
| 19 | You 're lookin' more like a battered wife every day . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , it barely fits the definition of being a house at all , looking more like a big triangular thing . |
| 21 | Looking more like a lumpy llama than a sheep , poor Carlos is all alone in the world — and quite understandably , a mate is being sought . |
| 22 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 23 | He lay on his elbow and hip along the top of a bureau , looking more like a Turkish sultan in a harem than he felt . |
| 24 | And then then risk the life of one of the best rabbits we 've got , just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moon-struck field-mouse . |
| 25 | The largest vulture of the region , with quite different flight outline from the typical vultures , long narrow angled and pointed wings and long diamond-shaped tail , looking almost like a giant Gyrfalcon ( p. 91 ) . |
| 26 | However , I prefer the bass Peter Harvey on Virgin , if only for the simply gorgeous noise he makes , sounding rather like a lyric tenor down half an octave . |
| 27 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 28 | AFTER the débâcle with Norman and Henrietta , Minton began dashing around like a hunted person . |
| 29 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 30 | Say summat instead of lying there like a great mawker . ’ |