Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't act much like a man who was expecting a favour , and if it were n't for Ana he certainly would n't get one . |
| 2 | He comes on a bit slow , sometimes , and the old turbine up top does n't always chug away like a Lamborghini , but he gets there , he gets there . |
| 3 | Finish by saying ‘ now all fall over ’ and , as you do it , you lean in to the person next to you and everyone will fall over like a row of dominoes . |
| 4 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 5 | It would just fall off like a dust . |
| 6 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 7 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 8 | Of course , you ca n't think exactly like a keyboard or a sax player would when you 're playing the guitar — the instrument will always shape the way you think to some extent . |
| 9 | Behaviour can help or hinder just like a hammer that can be used to construct or destroy . |
| 10 | ‘ You did n't exactly carry on like a pacifist yourself , ’ she retorted evasively , mouth reproachful . |
| 11 | ‘ If you did n't light up like a firework on festa night whenever I touch you , I could understand . ’ |
| 12 | It did n't feel particularly like a gun , but with Bruno it would have to be . |
| 13 | Watching this violation of the body 's orifices , preliminaries to the scientific brutality to follow , had always made him feel uncomfortably like a voyeur . |
| 14 | ‘ It does sound rather like a community . |
| 15 | This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof . |
| 16 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 17 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 18 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 19 | Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings . |
| 20 | Which , thinks Howard , may not sound much like a compliment — but which sounds considerably more like a compliment than anything else Phil has ever said . |
| 21 | He did n't look much like a doctor to Alina . |
| 22 | He does n't look much like a philosopher to me . |
| 23 | ‘ She does n't look much like a tiger , ’ Mungo said . |
| 24 | Lord have mercy upon us , " said the Collector heavily , making it sound more like a command than a supplication . |
| 25 | He 's really gorgeous wee Simeon although our Joy lets him schlepp about like a Toerag . |
| 26 | Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured . |
| 27 | [ In India ] every white traveller … must move rather like a snail , and sometimes at a snail 's pace , with his house , or a good part of it , on his back . |
| 28 | Whatever the colour scheme , whatever the style , these pretty white duvet covers and pillowcases from Lace Lady will fit in like a dream — and make for a good night 's sleep . |
| 29 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 30 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |