Example sentences of "like a [adj] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further inland , and only just visible from the southern window was the Old Rectory , set like a Victorian dolls ' house in its large , overgrown garden which , at this distance , looked as neatly green and formal as a municipal park . |
| 2 | A face , as Elinor was often telling him , like a deviant grocer 's . |
| 3 | From its harsh too-shiny texture there was no doubt it was synthetic but from a distance it looked like a black cat 's pelt . |
| 4 | She was lolling in bed , her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child 's . |
| 5 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 6 | Seven of the eight are well known Black communities and the sites read like a civil servant 's check list of those places where the state expected an uprising ( excluding those with Inner City Partnerships already present ) , yet no race specific dimension was added to their brief . |
| 7 | The man 's hair was long and stringy and his eyes blazed like a charismatic actor 's . |
| 8 | Like a fiery Pandora 's box , the lid was thrown wide open , spewing all the good and evil upon the world ( and , like the Greek myth , once good and evil are loosed on the world they can not be called back ) . |
| 9 | He pulled off his jacket in a hurry and left one sleeve turned inside out , like a small boy 's jersey . |
| 10 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 11 | It does n't look much like a traditional Sainsbury 's or Tesco 's , with its warehouse-style shelves and handwritten signs . |
| 12 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 13 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 14 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 15 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 16 | And then after that it was The Mandrake Studios ( I know the man who 's still got the nameplate , a brass nameplate it was , very discreet , like a private doctor 's ) . |
| 17 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 18 | There was no trace of breasts , and her hip bones jutted out like a young girl 's . |
| 19 | ‘ Sounds like a young boy 's adolescent dream to me , ’ Wendell said as his daughter fell silent . |
| 20 | The pool attendant was doing his morning training , up and down he went , thick dark-burnt shoulder heaving in and out of the water like a gleaming seal 's head . |
| 21 | He needs to be thinner , he 's like a bloody dustbin ai n't he ? |
| 22 | The 52nd-minute header was his first Premier League goal and the blue hordes massed in the new Bridgford End stand , that looks from the outside like a poor man 's Pompidou Centre , went wild . |
| 23 | The fellow 's mouth opened and shut like a landed carp 's . |
| 24 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 25 | When the great gate of Newgate slammed behind them , Cranston leaned against it , gasping for clean air , his great body quivering like a beached whale 's . |
| 26 | Somehow , they brought out in Gran a likeness to Jake and Adam , less in the features than in the look of the eyes , wide and clear like a passionate girl 's . |
| 27 | On his right , as usual , sat Miles Lessingham , the Operations Superintendent , whose reflection , staring back into the room , looked like a hydrocephalic death 's head . |
| 28 | Might have been more restful than running round like a lunatic stuffing pâté de foie gras into the undeserving old ghouls who turned up in their dozens today . ’ |
| 29 | Her poor face was white , I remember , and it seemed thin and small like a dead child 's . |
| 30 | " I do n't want to go , " I said childishly , looking at the sad bits of cut-off hair lying like a dead bird 's feathers on the floor . |