Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As has already been said , if the bereaved person has a supportive family or friends or somewhere like a church group where they can talk about their response to loss in an open way then this may be all the help they need . |
| 2 | ‘ Or just like a doctor , ’ she retorted . |
| 3 | At first she looked embarrassed , then she spoke to him , glancing over her shoulder once or twice like a child afraid of being caught . |
| 4 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 5 | Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling . |
| 6 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 7 | and only like a village but er |
| 8 | The screens should be removed from the reception desk to make it more friendly and less like a bank . |
| 9 | Suddenly its noise was distinct and loud like a tractor coming over the western horizon . |
| 10 | Silence speaks loudly and frighteningly like a ghost . |
| 11 | He found his hands full of dry , papery skin which , as he worked his way closer to her windpipe , came up and away like a curtain of strudel dough . |
| 12 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 13 | Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry ? |
| 14 | Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup . |
| 15 | The eyes shifted back and forth like a metronome . |
| 16 | Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside . |
| 17 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 18 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 19 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 20 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |
| 21 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
| 22 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 23 | So the price may be tossed hither and thither like a shuttlecock , as one side or the other gets the better in the ‘ higgling and bargaining ’ of the market . |
| 24 | God finger-flips the blubbery jail hither and thither like a war-game admiral nudging his fleet across maps of the sea . |
| 25 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 26 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 27 | The radiologist was obviously getting good soundings on the right of my stomach , for his sensor was traversing backwards and forwards like a frigate on a sweep with a nice , fat positive response , from a holed-up submarine . |
| 28 | check Backwards and forwards like a yo-yo . |
| 29 | I 'm I 'm a site agent for Tarmac Construction at erm I attend quite a few erm presentations really , tender interviews often going to the clients management meetings , site meetings and then like a lot of you the one to one situation . |
| 30 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |