Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 2 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 3 | The old , old fashion ! ( 2 ) The fashion that came in with our first garments , and will last unchanged until our race has run its course , and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll ( 3 ) . |
| 4 | In it I saw my child 's body inside my own , but it was n't curled up like a foetus . |
| 5 | He was wound up like a spring , furiously angry , unable to keep still or to prevent himself from fidgeting . |
| 6 | Mrs Thrigg plumped the coffee and home-made biscuits down on the low table beside the sofa in Mrs Baggley 's drawing-room and stumped out like a stage char . |
| 7 | Leonora lay rigid in his arms , resentful of being carried about like a bundle of laundry . |
| 8 | That is nipples which are turned in like a crater , or which do not stick up by at least half a centimetre when gently pinched between thumb and forefinger from just beyond the base . |
| 9 | His feet hung clear of the stirrups , and he was arched over like a letter G in the saddle ; his reins had slipped down round his horse 's hoofs . |
| 10 | In an open society , racism can not be turned off like a light . |
| 11 | He nearly caught me out with his C. S. Lewis , but I had him sewn up like a kipper with my Hermann Hesse . |
| 12 | The trickiest parts was keeping the feet with their fearsome claws underneath the body while she was lashed up like a parcel . |
| 13 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 14 | Her face is all twisted up like a snarl . |
| 15 | Is it like the sidings built up like a coach ? |
| 16 | Another , hearing of the little princes ' new holiday arrangements , commented : ‘ I feel sorry for them , being moved around like a pair of poor little shuttlecocks . ’ |
| 17 | I told you , I 've been moved around like a parcel . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 19 | She was towed in like a liner by tugs , her hands and skirts clutched and pulled . |
| 20 | Got up like a tart with her new frocks and her jewellery and all that muck on her face , and not a bleeding thing to do all day long but watch that colour telly and ring up her pals . |
| 21 | They went home at the end of the afternoon , just is the cloud slid back like a shutter and let clear yellow light stream along the valley from the west . |
| 22 | Grotesque bunches of fingers waggled their shadows against the wall near her face , the ceiling peeled back like a tin lid . |
| 23 | Appendages — being hauled round like a penitent 's placard . ’ |
| 24 | In the searing Saudi heat the steel plates in the boots , designed to protect soldiers from stakes in the jungle , heated up like a blacksmith 's anvil . |
| 25 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 26 | Gurder , who was normally out of breath at anything above walking pace , bounded along like a balloon . |
| 27 | Otley was presentable in his cords and silk shirt ; Nigel in his best jeans and sneakers padded along like a puma ; Elinor , as usual , ravishing in a cream , cotton two-piece , with a raspberry top , mouth to match and sky-blue earrings and chiffon scarf . |
| 28 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre and Mandeville to follow the sheriff , whilst he and I raced after Southgate , now being dragged along like a rag doll . |
| 29 | To be herself ; not to be swelled up like a frog by an unwanted baby . |
| 30 | Whereas 2001 stressed bareness , emptiness — not only in space but within the spacecraft too — the Soviet spaceship Leonov is lit up like a fairground , coloured lights everywhere ; and when it enters Jupiter 's atmosphere in a dangerous manoeuvre , it burns like the best firework ever — and survives . |