Example sentences of "has [vb pp] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if I 'm not mistaken , GM is vying for second place , Fiat , which at that point was tied neck and neck with VW for first place , has fallen like a rock . |
| 2 | A Clothes Show insider said : ‘ This has come like a bolt from the blue . |
| 3 | " Apart from making slow progress with my music " , Wagner wrote to his future father-in-law , Franz Liszt , in 1854 , " my sole concern recently is a man who has come like a gift from heaven … into my solitude . |
| 4 | The reason our house has looked like a junk yard since 1985 is because a three-seater the colour and shape of junk has been there . |
| 5 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 6 | The early morning sun of Herefordshire has shone like a beacon to the racing world this week . |
| 7 | The failure of IAEA safeguards , including twice-yearly inspections in Iraq for the pasts 15 years , must lead to the conclusion that the NPT has acted like a cloak of respectability to certain nations which have signed it . |
| 8 | Unsurprising , perhaps , but in a country that for 40 years has acted like a poodle it is striking to find a Japanese suggesting that it now has the strength of a rottweiler . |
| 9 | She is as honest and upright as they come , but has landed like a ton of bricks on younger members of staff whose behaviour she does n't approve of . |
| 10 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 11 | SARAH Parrott has become like a sister to her young friend Philip Dawson , who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
| 12 | He gave no details of the proposals but said : ‘ The deportees issue has become like a thorn in resuming the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn . |
| 13 | ‘ No doubt the deportees issue has become like a thorn in renewing the peace talks and we have to remove this thorn , ’ Mr Shara said . |
| 14 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 15 | She said yesterday her home in Louisa Street , Darlington , has become like a house under siege . |
| 16 | And now here I am in the morning admitting that every one of the 34 days Madeleine has been alive has seemed like a birthday . |
| 17 | Nigel 's father has worked like a slave to create a modern environment for his family . |
| 18 | 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 . |