Example sentences of "it [vb past] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got like an auction . |
| 2 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 3 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 4 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 5 | It became like a chant , a mantra for him ; Half Moon Crescent , Half-Moon-Crescent , Halfmooncrescent … |
| 6 | With the formation of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company in 1848 , Louth became an important junction , for in 1874 , together with other branch lines , it became like the hub of a wheel , with its main line from Grimsby to Boston , Spalding and Peterborough running north and south , the branch going south-east to Sutton on Sea , Mablethorpe and Skegness , and the Louth-Bardney branch going west through the Lincolnshire Wolds towards Bardney and Lincoln . |
| 7 | It smelled like a parrot too . |
| 8 | It cracked like a beechwood fire . |
| 9 | It moved like a spider , and looked like — well , it looked like a spider . |
| 10 | It tasted like a privet hedge . |
| 11 | it howled like a vampire in pain . |
| 12 | It rose like a peal of music heard from a distance on a clear night . |
| 13 | There was a woodland of spruce and pine ahead , where the ground began to climb toward a low , sinuous ridge that was the only feature on this otherwise flat horizon ; it rose like a shadow from the plain , dense with trees but delicately etched around the edges . |
| 14 | Looked at sideways on , it rose like a splint into the winter sky . |
| 15 | It was so high up , it whined like a fly . |
| 16 | It behaved like a Group III fax machine . |
| 17 | It wove like a web . |
| 18 | As it dropped like a stone from 6,500ft , Captain Fuchs spoke for the last time . |
| 19 | Anyway , I thought I 'll have this away and I slid it off the shelf and it dropped like a ton of bricks on me leg and broke me ankle . |
| 20 | ‘ As I turned the corner I saw the flag flying at half-mast and the meaning of it came like a flash . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed like every time I went out to walk the course I came back with wet feet . " |
| 22 | Now it seemed like a relief to be talking , a novelty , a test of wit . |
| 23 | ‘ It seemed like a message from a man . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ About two hours later — it seemed like a life-time , my legs had cramp and I was sore all over — the car slowed down . |
| 25 | She laughed — straight into his white face , so white that the red patches on it seemed like a clown 's makeup . |
| 26 | Well it seemed like a change from high-wire walking . |
| 27 | It seemed like a sea change . |
| 28 | I 'll never forget the cellar of a little pub where I once stood for 10 agonizing minutes — ( it seemed like a century ) — with three of my friends , facing four of the meanest-looking characters I had ever met . |
| 29 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 30 | ‘ It seemed like a joke , did n't it ? |