Example sentences of "[vb past] like [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tasted like a nutty lemon . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 3 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
| 4 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 5 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 6 | shouted like a moustachioed demagogue |
| 7 | She had n't realised how tense she was until she heard that he was all right , but now she crumpled like a wet paper bag , laughing and crying and laughing again all at once , while Mick hugged her and passed her tissues . |
| 8 | He howled like a wild animal , and hit his forehead several times against a tree , until the wood was covered in blood . |
| 9 | She waited with her buttocks bared like a naughty girl , while he selected an instrument of corporal punishment . |
| 10 | In wet weather it was a site for spectacular puddles , a mucky moat from which the picture house rose like a medieval castle . |
| 11 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 12 | The lights in the pub flickered like a fluttering heart , a clenching and rumbling nervous gut . |
| 13 | Clips of her conversations with Christine Mills , Marek Nowak and the encounter with Taczek floated before her , flickered like a silent film as she ran her manicured fingernails along the spines of her many books . |
| 14 | No one could doubt that William Joyce behaved like a young man who was English and proud of it . |
| 15 | Usually Artai behaved like a fractious child , his temper uncertain , his demeanour abrupt and discourteous . |
| 16 | He kept it , he told himself , to give back to her when she was kind and behaved like a proper wire . |
| 17 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 18 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 19 | A C2 might be a joy to paddle on a dancing rapid but out on the Pacific Ocean it behaved like a submersible beast . |
| 20 | In August 1968 , the Conservatives established a Scottish Constitutional Committee , which behaved like a royal commission , under Sir Alec Douglas-Home . |
| 21 | It also sprayed urine in a desultory fashion , but never behaved like a full-blooded tom at any stage . |
| 22 | It looked , and sounded , and played like the real animal . |
| 23 | ‘ You dropped like a felled ox . ’ |
| 24 | Presently a window was opened and framed a sharp white peak which seemed to be hanging almost directly overhead ; it glistened like a great diamond . |
| 25 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 26 | The smell of juniper , burned earlier as incense , still lingered like the warm breath of the forest in summer . |
| 27 | The first whispering breeze came like a hot breath and Wexford closed his windows . |
| 28 | Came like a sudden gust of wind , banging doors in him , shaking him to his foundations . |
| 29 | Noon came like a white midnight : the streets were deserted , the windows closed , the doors locked . |
| 30 | It came like an electric shock . |