Example sentences of "from it like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It all seemed so harmless , so peaceful , but it was really quite insidious-a debilitating disease that crippled the social body , choking its life from it like a cancer . ’ |
2 | The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag . |
3 | At dawn he walked again , and coming to a boating lake he drank from it like a horse , and filled his rubber bag . |
4 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
5 | Up here once , Bienvida had seen the full moon appear in that purple square and a pointed cloud cut a segment from it like an eclipse . |