Example sentences of "like a [adj] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A face , as Elinor was often telling him , like a deviant grocer 's . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was lolling in bed , her mouth wet and slack like a gormless child 's . |
| 4 | It was taking all the pleasure out of things and Maggie 's lips drooped like a disappointed girl 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The man 's hair was long and stringy and his eyes blazed like a charismatic actor 's . |
| 7 | He pulled off his jacket in a hurry and left one sleeve turned inside out , like a small boy 's jersey . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His lips were drawn back in a snarl of pain , his skinny white limbs were like a frozen chicken 's . |
| 10 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 11 | They would not hate her , if she tried to sob out what would sound to them like a typical housemaid 's melodrama . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 14 | There was no trace of breasts , and her hip bones jutted out like a young girl 's . |
| 15 | ‘ Sounds like a young boy 's adolescent dream to me , ’ Wendell said as his daughter fell silent . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her poor face was white , I remember , and it seemed thin and small like a dead child 's . |
| 23 | " 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 . |
| 24 | I was like a dead lamb 's tail . ’ |
| 25 | He let out a deep , hungry growl as she bucked and gasped from the shocking sensation , her eyes like a frightened doe 's . |
| 26 | ‘ What — what have you done to Adam ? ’ she whispered , and her voice came whimpering , like a frightened child 's . |
| 27 | Adam stared round , and his head went up like a frightened horse 's . |
| 28 | One boy I have not seen before has the perfect Masai physique , tall and slender but muscular like a high jumper 's . |
| 29 | The painters downstairs , skylarking on the fringe of the main action , celebrate ( though they would be surprised to hear it ) the living life which was , I said , merely imposed on Notes from Underground , but which now surrounds both crime and punishment and makes the whole novel responsive like a touched spider 's web . |
| 30 | Henry takes the stage in a f—ed -up black T-shirt tucked into f—ed -up shorts atop hideous Essex Man/Cliff-from- Cheers white socks and rolls straight into a monologue about posing for a high fashion magazine dressed like a regurgitated dog 's brunch . |