Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards .
2 But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket .
3 ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued .
4 Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs .
5 Only Hugo , once again in me , part of me , driving in like a needle into flesh , will stop this particular distress .
6 Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing .
7 Throughout pregnancy I shall practise crouching on the dusty Axminster in my faded Laura Ashley smock while thinking of opening out like a flower .
8 ‘ In marvellous form — leaping around like a boy of twenty .
9 Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends , his collar stud gleaming , and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank .
10 In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism .
11 instead of , instead of walking about like a zombie .
12 He said : ‘ I have enjoyed dressing up like a woman , making myself up and talking like them ever since I was in school . ’
13 Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant .
14 I remember the white snow splashing up like a wave . ’
15 I 'm sneaking a moment on deck before breakfast , feeling limp and watching a heron gliding around like a poker with a crick in its neck , when there 's a North country whisper behind me .
16 I have to tell you , my heart , the whole clan 's laughing at you , mooning about like a weaner calf seeking its dam . ’
17 All there was was the voice , going on like a weapon , confusing and tormenting .
18 So why do n't we both get back to work now , instead of nattering on like a couple of housewives over the garden fence ? ’
19 Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil .
20 And you get silences on the phone and you 're thinking this is going down like a lead balloon .
21 There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult .
22 When she looked back towards the house , Carla 's face was at the window , peering out like a sailor 's wife watching for masts at the quayside .
23 The snow was relatively unmarked here , packed high around a great wooden post with a beam jutting out like a scaffold .
24 From there I looked back to see Xanthe begin to talk to Mrs Young , at first slowly , with brakes on , and then faster and faster , until all the unhappiness was pouring out like a flood .
25 Anthony was always on the phone , rushing about like a bull in a china shop , or lying in bed till twelve with one or other of his girlfriends .
26 Thirty workmen died in the factory , of which nothing remained but a tall chimney stack , sticking up like a post above a desert of black boiling and seething mud .
27 A tawny giant with shoulders and arms like a blacksmith 's , he had lean hips , more freckles than a gull 's egg , a snub nose , sleepy honey-coloured eyes , Bart 's pugnacious jaw and red-gold hair sticking up like a Dandy brush .
28 Isobel looked up and laughed herself , her nose wrinkling up like a child 's .
29 The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’
30 It was Gazzer , still clinging on like a monkey and kicking out at Simon , who was dragging him back .
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