Example sentences of "like a [noun] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 2 | But you see , like a poker player who 's losing , I do n't think shuffling the pack around is going to help her . |
| 3 | He stopped speaking for a moment , like a man walking who comes to a brink ; perhaps it was an artful pause , but it made the stars , the night , seem to wait , as if story , narration , history , lay imbricated in the nature of things ; and the cosmos was for the story , not the story for the cosmos . |
| 4 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 5 | Or whether he just looked like a Cadogan employee who fancied his employer 's wife . |
| 6 | ‘ Damn ! ’ she said , like a tennis player who has just lost a point . |
| 7 | He 's like a country gentleman who insultingly dissimulates his wealth beneath ragged pullovers and patched elbows , while the rest of us are struggling to conceal our penury beneath well-cut suits we ca n't afford . |
| 8 | Wycliffe felt like a crossword addict who has some of the clues , a few of the answers but no grid on which to relate them . |
| 9 | She is not smiling like a university lecturer who has just got off the train from Oxford , but like a peasant woman who has just arrived in a hard-class compartment from Saratov . |
| 10 | I roared in head first , like a schoolboy boxer who wo n't make the grade . |
| 11 | It was in the stale stink of the sports hall at Pont Llanfraith leisure centre that he at last looked like a loser : hands thrust deep in the pockets of his best suit , face set solid with emotion , like a football manager who has just lost the Cup Final . |
| 12 | Remember what your psalmist says : ‘ The devil goes around like a lion seeking whom he would devour . ’ |
| 13 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 14 | Like a wine connoisseur who only has to sniff the vintage to know how good it is , a cat can learn all it wants to know without actually trying the food . |
| 15 | The ability to control a computer via a Graphical User Interface or GUI is much like a car driver who does n't need to understand the internal combustion engine to be able to manoeuvre the car with considerable skill . |
| 16 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |