Example sentences of "it like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a big room with a high , moulded ceiling and a draped bed that stood in the middle of it like a throne . |
| 2 | Sheila , it strikes me that one of the main problems with the argument is just what Ruth said : wages for housework is a kind of global undefined demand which sucks everything into it like a whirlpool , and ignores all the other demands — what about equal pay , what about equal educational opportunities , what about contraception and abortion , what about nurseries — there 's no short-term strategy in it , let alone long-term strategy . |
| 3 | ‘ We want to help people but without doing it like a charity . |
| 4 | He laid the ball back to Vasey , it was far too short , Ballwood latched on to it like a greyhound , drew Vasey , put the ball into the opposite corner and everybody all around was celebrating . |
| 5 | Her boss told Hilary : ‘ You took it like a man , although you 're the wrong shape . ’ |
| 6 | He took it like a man , which is better than I would have taken it . |
| 7 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 8 | Draw it like a magnet , your type does . |
| 9 | I think the problem is , that at the moment sex education is so arbitrary and it varies from school to school and from house to house I think they have to make it like a core part of the curriculum , make it compulsory and make it uniform throughout the country , so everybody 's getting the same education , the same quality I think that 'll help . |
| 10 | He opened one locker only to see its contents cascade out , repeatedly bashing the head of the man sitting under it like a scene from a Laurel and Hardy film . |
| 11 | He took to it like a natural . |
| 12 | The battered instrument had been Paddy Byrne 's most treasured possession and he had played it like a genius when his belly was full of beer . |
| 13 | He flapped it like a galosh . |
| 14 | It all seemed so harmless , so peaceful , but it was really quite insidious-a debilitating disease that crippled the social body , choking its life from it like a cancer . ’ |
| 15 | He wore it like a sommelier 's key , an order of merit or a symbol of kingship . |
| 16 | He pushed his face awkwardly into my hand , nuzzling it like a puppy , and then suddenly grabbed it in both his and kissed it . |
| 17 | Before Bull O'Malley could get a chance to reply , Father Devlin raised a conciliatory hand and waved it like a flag of truce . |
| 18 | The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag . |
| 19 | A small ‘ Eclipse ’ hacksaw , or a fibre disc in a high-speed motorised modelling tool , will go through it like a knife in butter . |
| 20 | She drove the corkscrew in , twisting it like a knife in an enemy , stretching her shoulders back and pulling , with no result . |
| 21 | Lucker finds his fishing rod , and flexes it like a whip . |
| 22 | The bare road bisected it like a parting . |
| 23 | Do you just do it like a school dictation in French , writing down the words , with conventional punctuation . |
| 24 | He loaded them into Carey 's shirtfront , filling it like a sack . |
| 25 | It was smooth and round but he carried it like a sack . |
| 26 | I knew the joy of the world and wondered at it like a child . |
| 27 | Mandeville chanted it like a child learning a rhyme . |
| 28 | Lydia picked it up , wondering whether to clutch it possessively to her chest , her arms crossed over it like a person in an old melodrama . |
| 29 | I had it like had it like a jab like a |
| 30 | Then one morning , unexpectedly , the familiar , charged stillness of the early monsoon again hovered over the valley — enclosing it like a cocoon , with its own slow pulse-beat and heavy silent breathing . |