Example sentences of "[vb past] up like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the ray rose up like a revenant |
| 2 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 3 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 4 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 5 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 6 | Dawn came up like a warning . |
| 7 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 8 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |
| 9 | His flesh and bone opened up like a bud deploying a blood-red , white-stamened flower from which the petals almost instantly fell . |
| 10 | Her other hand whipped up like a snake , grasped Manescu by the throat . |
| 11 | She was terribly conscious of the lewd position she 'd been forced to adopt , and was very aware of her thighs spread wide as she lay defenceless on her back , doubled up like a jack-knife . |
| 12 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 13 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |
| 14 | She was past caring who saw her bound up like a chicken , when she felt the blunt tip of his throbbing penis nudge against the portals of her dripping honeypot . |
| 15 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 16 | She lay perfectly still , curled up like a ball , rapturous that she was being fucked . |
| 17 | She lay in bed , curled up like a ball , grasping her twin moons , and erotically easing them apart so that the cleft widened to expose her tight little bumhole . |
| 18 | Mariana slept restlessly , curled up like a child . |
| 19 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 20 | While trying to convince myself how ridiculous this thought was , the turret lit up like a flash-bulb and exploded , or seemed to . |
| 21 | His smile switched on , lit up like a beacon , and was gone as suddenly . |
| 22 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 23 | He stood up like a man in a dream . |
| 24 | I was er , I was prepared remember , when I had my bone-graft , I went all prepared , shaved from head to foot wrapped up like a mummy , from my neck to my feet . |
| 25 | It sat up like a squirrel , its spruce brown back tinted chestnut in the sunlight , its belly cream-coloured . |
| 26 | He sat up like a shot and his face was right over mine , blazing . |