Example sentences of "there like a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 2 | They went up there like a couple of out of a gun , when I opened the door ! |
| 3 | ‘ She 's set up there like a part of the Rameses II exhibition , ’ came the answer . |
| 4 | And all Antoine did was sit there like a Buddha with that irritating smirk on his face . |
| 5 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 6 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 7 | ‘ Well I 'm standing there like a creep in this dress with dots on it . |
| 8 | Terribly fast , it was er , er , over his left shoulder going down there like a rate of knots and he 's now telling the other slips , putting his left hand showing where it might have gone . |
| 9 | You 're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again ? |
| 10 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 11 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 12 | She had stood there like a damsel in a high tower , imprisoned by her own fears , and had said imperiously , ‘ Here I am . |