Example sentences of "[vb past] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tears of outrage stung his eyes , and something deeper than humiliation sank like a stone into the pit of his stomach . |
| 2 | My heart and spirits sank like a stone in a lake . |
| 3 | Rohmer staggered like a sleepwalker through the second-floor door leading out into the stairwell . |
| 4 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 5 | But he no longer moved like a wave of the sea . |
| 6 | A car pulled up behind the Land Rover and disgorged Gareth and then Tremayne who moved like a tank across the earthy verge and rocked to a halt a yard away . |
| 7 | Tattooed women snaked up his forearms and his belly gaped like a mouth between the bottom of the tee-shirt and the waistband of the jeans . |
| 8 | it howled like a vampire in pain . |
| 9 | I read it in one twenty-minute sitting , howled like a baby for ten more minutes , then phoned the producer and practically begged her to give me the job . |
| 10 | The storm-door scuffed like a heel against a heap of circulars . |
| 11 | It is not something impelled like a machine by a little egoistic inside ’ ; and again , ‘ deadness , in the limited sense in which we use that word , is the first condition of art . |
| 12 | To their left , the finely wrought balustrade of a stone cantilevered staircase rose like a border of black lace . |
| 13 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |
| 14 | To my left , the leeward side of sixty-foot dunes rose like a wall alongside the road . |
| 15 | Back at the academy , Ethel sat fuming in bed and watched from her window as the pupils rose like a flock of bats into the twilight and sailed away without her . |
| 16 | There was a woodland of spruce and pine ahead , where the ground began to climb toward a low , sinuous ridge that was the only feature on this otherwise flat horizon ; it rose like a shadow from the plain , dense with trees but delicately etched around the edges . |
| 17 | Looked at sideways on , it rose like a splint into the winter sky . |
| 18 | It rose like a peal of music heard from a distance on a clear night . |
| 19 | The campaign to get the new ‘ child tax credit ’ payable to mothers was eventually a successful one : while the tax credit-scheme as a whole was abandoned , the child benefit , combining family allowance and child tax allowance and payable to the mother for all her children including the first , rose like a Phoenix from the ashes , in the form of the Child Benefit Act , 1975 . |
| 20 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 21 | Politically , he often behaved like a bull in a china shop . |
| 22 | We sat and dined like a group of friends . |
| 23 | Daly achieved instant super-stardom when , as ninth reserve and without a caddie , he got into the 1991 US PGA Championship at the last minute , and played like a God for four days on a course he 'd never previously seen to win it . |
| 24 | By comparison England played like a bunch of strangers — and a not very talented collection at that . |
| 25 | Souness , who reported that the latest injuries to hit the club were not too serious , added : ‘ It was difficult to entertain in that wind , but I thought we played like a team at times tonight . ’ |
| 26 | Ruth dropped like a stone into the nearest available armchair . |
| 27 | As it dropped like a stone from 6,500ft , Captain Fuchs spoke for the last time . |
| 28 | Anyway , I thought I 'll have this away and I slid it off the shelf and it dropped like a ton of bricks on me leg and broke me ankle . |
| 29 | Before us , across the road , the line of shop windows glistened like a strip of film Manhattan and its little concerns : a Thai laundry , a handbag hospital , a delicatessen ( " Lonnies " — For A Better Sandwich " — " No Nukes " " Sorry . |
| 30 | Out of the small sitting area at the end of the corridor Gwendolen Figgis-Hewett darted like a vixen from cover . |