Example sentences of "[verb] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they 're very clever , it must be wonderful to be able to write like Alan Sillitoe . |
| 2 | Shaped and polished , they would wink like jewels . |
| 3 | Christine glared at her , the eyes smouldering like emeralds . |
| 4 | United responded like champions and laid seige to the Chelsea goal for the remainder of the game . |
| 5 | Thyer , owned like Miznah by by Maktoum Al Maktoum , tackles the Fielden Stakes on Thursday as a build-up to a Kentucky Derby clash with Arazi . |
| 6 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 7 | L. Lives Like Logs of Driftwood : This wants to be a long , very well written story . |
| 8 | Six tracks are taken from that debut album , six tracks that splinter and splutter , Andy Gill 's guitar , wired and nervy — Steve Albini 's copy of this record must be well worn — exploding like shrapnel amongst Jon King 's rantings . |
| 9 | Six tracks are taken from that debut album , six tracks that splinter and splutter , Andy Gill 's guitar , wired and nervy — Steve Albini 's copy of this record must be well worn — exploding like shrapnel amongst Jon King 's rantings . |
| 10 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 11 | It is only through feminist psychology 's attention to work like Ladner 's Afrocentric sociology , that it comes to consider specific features of black girls ' socialization in their families and communities ( Williams 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Where 's the incentive to work like hell on Friday , when you reached cut-off the day before ? |
| 13 | You want us to work like dogs … |
| 14 | You start to work like clockwork , doing it all automatically . |
| 15 | The sound of his name seemed to work like magic . |
| 16 | ‘ I have to live next to you and it stinks like fuck ! ’ |
| 17 | The blue grey mud banks glittered where wet from the tide , but lay dry and cracked like acres of crazy paving above the high water mark . |
| 18 | Their footsteps suddenly cracked like pistol shots as the carpet was replaced by plastic tiles . |
| 19 | Irrigation ditches , cracked like parchment , ran through the lanes . |
| 20 | When one kneels on the seat I see heels cracked like earth and , on some , toes that seem almost to be growing together like tubers . |
| 21 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 22 | Polished linoleum , a shining , glass sea , with rugs scattered like islands . |
| 23 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 24 | Out on the ramp beneath the lights and the arrows of rain and the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts : fathers , mothers , children , the old , scattered like leaves in the wind . |
| 25 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 26 | That scattered like twigs |
| 27 | The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall , and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark . |
| 28 | ‘ You could be in this coffin , your mother could be heartbroken and devastated like Damien 's mother at this time . |
| 29 | He 's so eager to learn he almost quivers like Shep there , he repeats everything over and over again , as if he 's learning it off by heart . ’ |
| 30 | This pastime attracted such an enthusiastic following that several of the better equipped European brothels provided chambers decorated like railway carriages which shuddered and vibrated mechanically when they were occupied , as well as resounding with chugging and whistling sound effects . |