Example sentences of "become like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is in danger of becoming like a vulture scavenging around every incident , irrespective of the facts and of the accusations that he makes against other people . |
| 2 | She , i it was it was becoming like a dictatorship ! |
| 3 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 4 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 5 | One man who was attendant to the condemned men said that cell 13 became like a church . |
| 6 | As tasks were broken down the office became like a production line for mental work . |
| 7 | It became like a chant , a mantra for him ; Half Moon Crescent , Half-Moon-Crescent , Halfmooncrescent … |
| 8 | It sounds straightforward , but became like a marathon through a molasses maze of rules , regulations and other difficulties before securing a profitable sale . |
| 9 | The process of psychology can become like a drug with the victim as addicted to their own helpless indulgence as the therapist is to the emotional charge that they get . |
| 10 | If his new wife has a child I will become like a servant . |
| 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 | The Führer ’ had become like a drug for the people , needed for reassurance whenever doubts , worries , and uncertainties began to mount . |
| 15 | He said she had become like a stone and tempted him to treat her as one and hurl her away . |
| 16 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 17 | Charles Pollard , chief constable for the Thames Valley says court proceedings have become like a game . |
| 18 | Court proceedings have become like a game . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She said yesterday her home in Louisa Street , Darlington , has become like a house under siege . |
| 21 | But it had become like a hunger : his whole being seemed empty when he was out of her presence . |
| 22 | You become like a ship . ’ |
| 23 | It becomes like a drive because you 're afraid of not making it , so , yeah , I drank . |
| 24 | This dematerialisation is taken a stage further when his soul becomes like a bird which can fly away , completely freeing itself from society or any distractions to concentrate solely on the contemplation of itself . |
| 25 | He becomes like a tiger , his eyes glistening . ’ |
| 26 | Ignorant men regard death with fear and avoid thinking about it , and for that reason it becomes like a terror to children . |
| 27 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 28 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |