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 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is Parliament , not the law , which is in danger of looking more and more like an ass . |
| 23 | And the après ski is less like a Martini commercial and more like an episode of Colditz . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | God finger-flips the blubbery jail hither and thither like a war-game admiral nudging his fleet across maps of the sea . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | check Backwards and forwards like a yo-yo . |