Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bitter laugh rose up like bile in her throat . |
| 2 | Amongst the curricular areas identified as in need of attention was the school library , so that the project " came along like money from heaven " . |
| 3 | It felt rather like passing through a magic door in a James Bond movie or slipping into a speak-easy because the Cross Keys was a gringo hang-out par excellence , complete with long , oak-look bar and well-used dartboard . |
| 4 | It felt rather like swimming under water in a glass tank : on all sides and above him he could see the world , the outer air , but he was not part of it . |
| 5 | Looking up , she saw her old mistress understood perfectly her misery and confusion and was sorry for it but there was also an air of what looked remarkably like satisfaction about her . |
| 6 | The next few days slipped away like sand through her fingers . |
| 7 | An earthquake crack appeared jaggedly like lightning across the road behind us , and two more cop cars plunged into a bottomless pit . |
| 8 | ‘ It sounded remarkably like rejection to me . |
| 9 | ‘ My goodness me , was it really ? ’ he said laying on the Scottish accent so that it sounded more like Scotch by absorption rather than birth . |
| 10 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 11 | The captain 's eyes narrowed a little ; a flare of blue fire shot out like lightning from the back of her skull down towards her left hand . |
| 12 | Antoine shook his head where the glass beads now were filled with smoke ; a few of the ampoules glittered still like lightning through storm-clouds , but worst was the anguish on his face . |