Example sentences of "[noun sg] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city . |
| 2 | Says Boswell , ‘ He had his Tartan plaid thrown about him , a large blue bonnet with a knot of black riband like a cockade , a brown short coat of a kind of duffil [ thick-napped cloth ] , a Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes , a bluish philibeg , [ or filibeg , or kilt ] and Tartan hose . |
| 3 | They are built like South African rugby forwards , and they 'd cut through most opposition like a spoon through custard . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw — ’ he struck up again with a mouth like a railway tunnel . |
| 5 | He opened his mouth like a beak . |
| 6 | By this time I was frothing at the mouth like a rabid dog in walking boots with the effort of running in the heat , so I gave in and resumed normal speed . |
| 7 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 8 | He is ‘ a large , hard-breathing , middle-aged slow man , with a mouth like a fish , dull staring eyes , and sandy hair standing upright on his head , so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked , and had that moment come to ’ . |
| 9 | Karen took something from her handbag and slipped it into her mouth like a communicant self-administering the host . |
| 10 | At Kyalami Ranch , he 'd have a blade of grass in his mouth like a kid on a picnic , he 'd never think of holding court or taking himself so seriously ( as later champions did ) that you wanted to needle him . |
| 11 | John keeps opening and shutting his mouth like a fish . |
| 12 | And then , somewhere in the house , she heard a sound which gave her a dry , tingling sensation in the mouth like a small , electric shock . |
| 13 | It was 4′long , had a mouth like a mastiff and was as dead as mutton . |
| 14 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 15 | The male camel drinks the female 's urine , swilling it in his mouth like a wine taster to assess her sexual state . |
| 16 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
| 17 | Mr Pumblechook , who had a shop in the nearest town , was a fat , middle-aged man with a mouth like a fish , and staring eyes . |
| 18 | Presently she found that she had the gift of tongues : notions of sacrifice and immolation and of a saviour with hair of sackcloth poured out of her mouth like a river of lava . |
| 19 | ‘ The one who used to hollow out the inside of a baguette for breakfast , and fill it up with condensed milk , and lower it into his mouth like a sword-swallower ? ’ |
| 20 | In Gouda there is a stained-glass window of Jonah leaving the fish 's mouth like a foot-passenger stepping from the jaws of a car-ferry . |
| 21 | What I remember of that night resembles the memory of a dream : limbs twined round my own , and a loud , throbbing pounding noise that is my heart drumming in my ears , and a huge mouth like a scarlet flower fastened on to my mouth and my neck and my ears , and hands coiling around me and an immense and powerful heat spreading all over my body . |
| 22 | Watching his dark head disappear , Polly conjured up some very satisfying visions of Nathan Bryce being chased by a shark with a mouth like a huge pair of pinking shears . |
| 23 | Her lips parted uncertainly and she tasted the sweet caress of his mouth like a child tasting fizzy sherbet for the first time . |
| 24 | He wore a short , close-trimmed beard that scarcely veiled the shape of a wide , mobile , quirky mouth like a jester 's ; and though his thick crop of short , curling hair was black , there were twin streaks of mingled rust-red in the beard 's blackness , sharpening and tapering his long chin to a fiery point . |
| 25 | As I was about to open my mouth like a fish , the outer door swung open and in bounced two hounds , followed by a slender young man shaking raindrops from his head . |
| 26 | This time his fingers seemed to tighten in her hair , drawing her mouth like a prisoner against his . |
| 27 | Soon the chewed mass has sponged up any moisture left and your dry tongue is clanging against the side of your mouth like the great bell of Notre Dame . |
| 28 | He 'd woken in a shocking state , his mouth like the Sahara desert . |
| 29 | But I have n't got a girl , and I push my way among the couples along the narrow gangway like a wandering voyeur . |
| 30 | When the birds spewed out of the darkness the flower-seller flapped her great shawl like a matador to ward them off ; they broke formation , circling the massive clock stopped at ten to ten , floundering upwards towards the whirling sky framed in the shards of glass set in the iron ribs of the shattered roof . |