Example sentences of "like [art] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways the yacht suited him well enough , but there were a few details that niggled — like the way a lump of green water lifting onto the weather side deck and running aft almost invariably hit the rail at the corner of the transom and slopped over the coaming to soak his trousers . |
| 2 | It 's more like the way the triplet figure sounds . |
| 3 | Their word Houyhnhnm means a horse , and the word itself sounds very like the noise a horse makes . |
| 4 | According to Rosenblatt 's theory , the poem is like the noise the crash makes , and if there was no one to hear the crash — no ear drums for the waves to bang against — there can have been no noise . |
| 5 | Of Shakespeare he says , ‘ Being a great poet the lines just tumbled out of him , and , like the whore an artist sometimes is , he distributes his favours to undeserving characters . |
| 6 | Keegan is demanding nothing like the £4,000 a week figure that has been bandied about . |
| 7 | things like the magazines the colour supplements and things like that |
| 8 | I especially liked the Sci-Fi Drive-In Diner at MGM : a 250-seater restaurant where each ‘ table ’ is in a 1950s open-top car and the big-screen entertainment is provided by clips from black-and-white , B-movie classics like The Day The Earth Stood Still . |
| 9 | ‘ It looks like the sack the girl was carrying , ’ said the Leader . |
| 10 | There is nothing like the thrill a week or two later of being able to get back into clothing that you thought had been discarded forever . |
| 11 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 12 | I think all signature models should carry a warning that the potential purchaser will not automatically sound like the player the guitar has been designed to serve . |
| 13 | Like the rates the tax would be based on the value of the property . |
| 14 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 15 | It 's like the sound a child makes when it confronts its own … |
| 16 | Her giggles became a scream , a short sharp shriek like the sound the hawk made . |
| 17 | She is not considering charging anything like the £7 a litre at which the health drink sells in Germany . |
| 18 | What is even more odd is that like the AV the STV is allowed to retain its original unitary value however often it is transferred and whatever its preferential status . |
| 19 | I mean young women , strong enough to breed like the cows every spring time and dig the fields in between — is n't that what they want in Australia , for all those men ? |
| 20 | What it said sounded very much like the words the woman had just used . |
| 21 | I 'm like a headmistress a lot of the time . |
| 22 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 23 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 24 | Well she does look like a Rottweiler a bit do n't she ? |
| 25 | It 's like a kick the cat syndrome , is n't it . |
| 26 | Hugging the ground like a Lotus the Magister seems faster than it really is . |
| 27 | In some respects , she could not help thinking , Miriam was just like a man the way she said things … sometimes even worse . |
| 28 | SEVEN MILLION tons of feedback and distortion , teeth-grindingly immense versions of ‘ Summertime Blues ’ and ‘ Shakin' All Over ’ , with Roger Daltrey twirling the microphone above his head like a helicopter a lot — it was a classy night out , alright . |
| 29 | Or the need to race to the phone like a lunatic every time it rings ( for someone else ) and to blame your mother because you were at the pub when he did phone . |
| 30 | I 'll be off like a shot the moment my time 's up . ’ |