Example sentences of "up like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No power to keep the foot up like a normal one . ’ |
| 2 | The Noir et Blanc was a palace all right , lit up like a carnival float . |
| 3 | Does it mean that it is well landscaped , built of local materials , does n't stick up like a sore thumb ? |
| 4 | Well , mm , wo n't that make it very easy for terrorists to , to hop over the low wall and avoid the enormous nine foot gate they 've got , sticking up like a sore thumb now would n't that be rather redundant ? |
| 5 | ‘ Now come on , pay up like a good little girl . ’ |
| 6 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 7 | He knew that in this berserk state those horns could open him up like a ripe melon . |
| 8 | and erm that there is this upsurge and he , he goes on , in a very short time in ce central , southern and northern provinces , I E the whole of China , several hundred million peasants will rise up like a mighty storm , like a hurricane , a force so swift and violent no power however great will be able to hold it back . |
| 9 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 10 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 11 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 12 | Their main claws swell up like a rotten log . |
| 13 | It sprang up like a leaping salmon and in mid-ricochet plunged deeply into the back of the troll 's grey neck . |
| 14 | ‘ Lapping it up like a weak kitten , ’ thought Fergus . |
| 15 | All of a sudden , Alfred strike one karate pose there and leap one leap on the front man , knocking him down , grabbed his machine gun and with two more leaps he was past them and through us as we open up like a black red sea and close again . |
| 16 | Between each song , a chant pushes up like a hushed inhale , murmuring from a hesitant corner . |
| 17 | He seemed as tense as she was , his whole body wound up like a coiled spring . |
| 18 | Their faces lit up like a wintry sun at the event and everybody seemed suddenly happy . |
| 19 | The upright against which he rested stretched up like a great squared pillar into the ceiling high overhead , white-painted , the simplicity of its design emphasised by the seven pictograms carved into the wood and picked out in gold leaf-the characters forming couplets with those on the matching upright . |
| 20 | If you keep your shoulder still , because it does n't hurt so much , it 'll tend to seize up like a rusty |
| 21 | Isabel 's head came up like a wary animal scenting the air , but her face was swiftly wiped of all expression . |
| 22 | Betinna lay curled up like a long-haired cat on the sofa . |
| 23 | It was quite easy , for she was standing at the front of the Council House talking to a large policeman and when Dad and I reached them he said , ‘ There you are Mrs. Maidment , I knew he 'd turn up like a bad penny ! ’ |
| 24 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 25 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 26 | Sometimes I resent having to truss myself up like a stuffed chicken . |
| 27 | His small round face crinkled up like a naughty baby and , through his irritation , Georg found himself having to stifle a grin of his own . |
| 28 | Only after Pericles ' death did the rot set in , when the people insisted on following so-called " demagogue revealing word — like Cleon , who evidently did not know how to behave , but curried favour with " the rabble " by calculated populist gestures : " He was the first " , wrote Aristotle , " to indulge in shouting and scurrilous abuse from the rostrum , and to address the people with his clothes tucked up like a common labourer , whereas all his predecessors had spoken with dignity and properly dressed . " |
| 29 | ‘ I never did understand , an old man like that and a five-star general to boot , why he went around dressed up like a nineteen-year-old Second Lieutenant , ’ said Truman , reminiscing years afterwards to Merle Miller . |
| 30 | This does n't help , setting it all down , discussing it , unravelling it and rolling it up like a dead tongue . |