Example sentences of "and [vb base] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I 'm wearing now I 'll be wearing in a year or eighteen months , it does n't chop and change like a fashion ; the meaning it has now is the same one it will have in eighteen months ' time . |
| 2 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 3 | ‘ And skulk like a fox ? |
| 4 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |
| 5 | NeTpower machines are meant to look , feel and smell like a PC . |
| 6 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 7 | Do n't put it in a plastic bag in the fridge and save it for visitors ; before you know where you are it 'll have swollen to three times its size and smell like a chemical factory . |
| 8 | Offpiste spring snow is easy to ski and smooth so concentrate on regular breathing ( in as you start the turn , out as you complete it ) , think ‘ light ’ and fly like a bird . |
| 9 | Tonight I shall have a few pints , take Jenny out to dinner , probably attack a nice bottle of claret , and sleep like a stone . |
| 10 | Enough to have Jay fly home on the wings of Peter Pan and sleep like an angel . |
| 11 | Instinct was telling her to collapse against the nearest tree and cry like a baby , but instinct could go and chase itself . |
| 12 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
| 13 | I sit and fidget like a child . |
| 14 | In a poignant soliloquy , watching smoke curl into the sky like an ethereal question mark , he exclaims , ‘ Ah , human beings — they tremble and worry like a leaf in the storm because they know and because they do n't know . ’ |
| 15 | Taste it , savour it — do n't simply chew and swallow , chew and swallow like a robot , hardly even knowing what you are eating . |
| 16 | How dared he come to his , Philip 's place , and act like a bird shooter . |
| 17 | ‘ And that was a challenge , ’ he recalled , ‘ to spend 45 minutes with a guy and act like a spy . ’ |
| 18 | He is not to retaliate and must always be happy ; thankful for all the help he has received and act like a fucking Samaritan to those worse off then himself . |
| 19 | And yet it could still surprise him that a man could be a sensible and reliable scientist in his work and a fool with women , could show judgement in one area of his life and act like an irrational child in another . |
| 20 | I know I 'm no end of a brute , and roar like a bear when I lose my temper , but there 's no need to be quite so distressed by my presence . |
| 21 | For a brief moment , the terrible Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher made the lake boil and smoke like a volcano , then the fire went out and the awesome beast disappeared under the waves . |
| 22 | Or hide behind the curtains and bark like a Rottweiler . |
| 23 | The gigantically helmeted head of some biblical hero would stick out through the roof and stand like an Easter Island monolith among the chimneys and machine-gun emplacements , jewelled eyes blazing with golem life . |
| 24 | Certainly , he seem airily exotic with his cropped hair and face like an oriental cherub . |
| 25 | Norm had to call her , then shake her , and she would stagger downstairs and hang like an exhausted alcoholic over a clutched mug of coffee . |
| 26 | They 're compelled to infest other races and multiply like a cancer within . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Moss stitch is best for ties otherwise they tend to curl up at the edges and look like a drain pipe . ’ |
| 28 | Then he 'd bounce a little with his other leg out straight behind him to stretch his hamstrings and look like a proper athlete . |
| 29 | We also went to see the Museo do Pobo Galego , which has fascinating exhibits on rural life , including horréos or granaries , which are found in almost every country garden and look like a stone garden shed on stilts . |
| 30 | Gamma and 6 Equulei are close together , and look like a wide double , though they are not actually associated with each other . |