Example sentences of "have [vb pp] like a " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well it is n't erm specifically in the erm cupboards it 's just erm because I 'm now coping with who has acted like a erm shoemaker shoemaker 's son do all your job I am coping with what he did thirty odd years ago |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Music in America has become like a secret society . |
| 13 | The second wave of Trusts has become like a second hand car sale . |
| 14 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 15 | SARAH Parrott has become like a sister to her young friend Philip Dawson , who suffers from cerebral palsy . |
| 16 | She said yesterday her home in Louisa Street , Darlington , has become like a house under siege . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During six weeks of intensive pre-tour training at Lilleshall , Graham Gooch 's batsmen have , for the first time , been using a special indoor mat in the nets that has spun like a sub-continental wicket . |
| 21 | Nigel 's father has worked like a slave to create a modern environment for his family . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Even his walk was changed : normally he 'd moved like a man with springs in his feet . |
| 24 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 25 | For so long , he 'd felt like a phantom . |
| 26 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 27 | She 'd felt like a princess . |
| 28 | He 'd felt like a specimen being studied . |
| 29 | She 'd acted like a silly hen . |
| 30 | She 'd behaved like a wanton , and why ? |