Example sentences of "up like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dawn came up like a warning . |
| 2 | Elinor , now asleep in the bedroom , her square jaw up like a tombstone , her mouth as wide as a new grave , her light snore ticking fitfully , like some tired machine . |
| 3 | The man was up like a cat , crouching , legs apart , the pale lights of the motor yacht shimmering on the knife in his hand , spittle foaming at the corners of his mouth , mad eyes . |
| 4 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |
| 5 | Then the Dawn Maiden gave him one of the Sun 's burning rays ; she wound it up like a ribbon and put it in a box which she hung round his neck . |
| 6 | Although there are also other Gaelic names for hemlock , the Biblical reference in Hosea X. 4 uses this name : ( Thus judgment springeth up like a hemlock in the furrows of the field ) . |
| 7 | His flesh and bone opened up like a bud deploying a blood-red , white-stamened flower from which the petals almost instantly fell . |
| 8 | The loss of her father had opened her up like a can of something and tipped her out . |
| 9 | I was trussed up like a chicken for roasting . |
| 10 | She was past caring who saw her bound up like a chicken , when she felt the blunt tip of his throbbing penis nudge against the portals of her dripping honeypot . |
| 11 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If you do , ’ he said softly , leaning towards her , ‘ we 'll slice you up like a joint of meat . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 14 | Lysette has no fears that her marriage to hunky Luc will wind up like a scene out of Husbands and Wives or with the heartbreaking headlines that Woody and Mia have endured . |
| 15 | Her other hand whipped up like a snake , grasped Manescu by the throat . |
| 16 | Whereas 2001 stressed bareness , emptiness — not only in space but within the spacecraft too — the Soviet spaceship Leonov is lit up like a fairground , coloured lights everywhere ; and when it enters Jupiter 's atmosphere in a dangerous manoeuvre , it burns like the best firework ever — and survives . |
| 17 | I shriek , rising up like a cobra . |
| 18 | As a result he is bloated up like a space hopper and just rolls round the pitch with a dopey grin on his face . |
| 19 | She took in breath to scream , but it had caught her up like a shred of paper . |
| 20 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |
| 21 | You 've made his ears fly up like a donkey 's . ’ |
| 22 | He 's done me up like a kipper and I fucking fell for it . |
| 23 | He nearly caught me out with his C. S. Lewis , but I had him sewn up like a kipper with my Hermann Hesse . |
| 24 | Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever . |
| 25 | He really was remarkably handsome , even when he was trussed up like a turkey ready for Christmas . |
| 26 | Aunt Louise seemed to swell up like a bullfrog , her eyes about to pop out of her head . |
| 27 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 28 | The Devil , dressed up like a serpent said , ‘ You must eat an apple a day ’ |
| 29 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |
| 30 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |