Example sentences of "there like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also stored food in there like a hamster , and sometimes , when least expected , her head would snake back inside her covering and the crunch of crisps or the slurp of a boiled sweet could be heard . |
| 2 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 3 | The magical quality of the place crept on them there like a spell , the warmth and the sunshine and the scents of the garden and the tranquil silence . |
| 4 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 5 | I stood there like a fool , watching him . |
| 6 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 7 | An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink . |
| 8 | They went up there like a couple of out of a gun , when I opened the door ! |
| 9 | ‘ She 's set up there like a part of the Rameses II exhibition , ’ came the answer . |
| 10 | I 've lost whatever it was that used to draw me there like a magnet . ’ |
| 11 | He stood there like a stone figure . |
| 12 | And all Antoine did was sit there like a Buddha with that irritating smirk on his face . |
| 13 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 14 | He did n't look dangerous at all now , she thought , lying there like a mummer 's puppet flung down with its limbs every which way and the head at an odd angle . |
| 15 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |
| 16 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 17 | Anyway I 'm standing there like a creep . |
| 18 | ‘ Well I 'm standing there like a creep in this dress with dots on it . |
| 19 | where his right hand , he 's a very confident music reader and plays but his left hand he 's merely sort of hangs there like a claw and plays the odd chord |
| 20 | I just stood there like a goof waiting for him to introduce her . |
| 21 | As I looked towards the right , however , along the other widespread arm of the building , something materialized there like a stain : light towards the dead dull end of the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 22 | If there 's a camera around , I 'm there like a shot . |
| 23 | Once they get wind of that they 'll have me in there like a shot — And me hands are getting worse . |
| 24 | He was there like a shot . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a part of me still wants to be back in Bosnia and if I get the chance I 'll be there like a shot . ’ |
| 26 | If I , if my children were there , I 'd take them out of there like a shot . |
| 27 | And he 's up there like a shot . |
| 28 | Well I , I might just block it off get another piece of wood and put it in there and just nail that fucking lot up and block off completely , otherwise Nick 's , if Nicholas is playing in the garden he 'll be out of there like a shot , so you 're gon na get one post there , say one in the middle and one at the end . |
| 29 | Offered a free bed and nosebag , Tony is there like a rat up a drainpipe . |
| 30 | You know we we 've heard a lot about this leaf bud structure and what to replace it with but since this is Nottingham and this centre of lace why could n't they put something there like a loom or something sculptured to look like a loom ? |