Example sentences of "[vb -s] like a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside , a slimy sausage glistens like a dog 's turd on the side of the plate . |
| 2 | Over 300lbs of oscillating blubber held modestly together by a taffeta jock-strap which serves to keep one cheek from slapping the other — the whole lot topped by a hairstyle which looks like a Sainsbury 's Catherine Wheel . |
| 3 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
| 4 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
| 5 | She looks like a farmer 's wife . ’ |
| 6 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 7 | And after that we have a man called Heg who I presume is a man anyway , it looks like a man 's name . |
| 8 | ‘ When you make your mouth go like that , ’ said Sam , ‘ it looks like a baboon 's bottom . |
| 9 | Looks like a hangman 's scaffold . |
| 10 | Looks like a dog 's brush |
| 11 | The ‘ shots ’ icon gives improved blasting power , and the thing that looks like a sergeant 's stripe increases your military rank . |
| 12 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
| 13 | It looks like a school-child 's coat . |
| 14 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 15 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 16 | Its croak sounds like a smoker 's cough . |
| 17 | That 's sounds like a physicist 's interpretation of what a chemist is saying . |
| 18 | You think you 're so clever , Gianluigi , and that 's your problem , for your cleverness gleams like a wolf 's fangs . |
| 19 | It smells like a woman 's . |