Example sentences of "which [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1968 , the Conservatives established a Scottish Constitutional Committee , which behaved like a royal commission , under Sir Alec Douglas-Home . |
| 2 | However , two changes that have occurred in the power game have been the awakening of concentrated industrial or union power , which rested like a sleeping giant for nearly a century , and the emergence of consumer power . |
| 3 | as tall as a palm tree and perfectly black [ with ] one eye which flamed like a burning coal in the middle of his forehead . |
| 4 | It was a great " WHUFF " which rushed like a mighty wind through passages and rooms , rang the windows and leaving an ominous silence in its wake . |
| 5 | The lounge was as big and as bare as a dance studio , with three evenly-spaced sets of french windows on one side that could be opened out onto the unlit stone terrace ; the floor was of deeply polished boards with no carpet , the furniture was mostly plain white leather , and at the focus stood a hi-fi system which looked like a stolen chunk of a space shuttle . |
| 6 | One which looked like a ringed plover but with a brown tinge to its less contrasty plumage turned out to be greater sand plover , which breeds on the desert plains of Mongolia . |
| 7 | The club house , which looked like a turreted Ruritanian castle , had white walls , grey roofs , flawless pitches front and back , but as yet no windows , nor , as Perdita suspected , a Ladies ' loo , or changing room . |
| 8 | Almost by return , he was hit by a missile which looked like a rotting cabbage . |
| 9 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 10 | It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away , raising its hands to its mouth . |
| 11 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 12 | Molassi sat cross legged next to a thin column of bright white light , which stood like a radiant strut at the centre of the chamber . |
| 13 | The good Lord knows what a dirty , loathsome task it was : the crowded houses , and the stinking sewers which smelt like a boiling cauldron in the heat of the city . |