Example sentences of "[pron] like [art] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the leaders are nearly always someone like a Director of Nursing or somebody like that , who has no ward experience |
| 2 | ‘ It is unreasonable for us to accept that it is commonplace for people like our Cabinet Ministers to have affairs , and yet to consider that someone like the Prince of Wales is unfit for the job . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , I , well I never like so , even now I 'm paranoid about it , its like a couple of times I do n't know how I slept a wink , and these people are the people I trust because you do n't want I know they wo n't do it on purpose , but I know , have seen what I 'm |
| 4 | I dreamed I saw a boy giving himself airs — preening himself like the Queen of Sheba . |
| 5 | So , the Bizango will come down on them like a ton of bricks if they get the chance , for both the unauthorized zombis and the rabble rousing . ’ |
| 6 | When they got outside , the early afternoon heat hit them like a blast of air from the Underground . |
| 7 | Any sign of weakness or fear and the cutpurses lurking there would be on them like a pack of dogs . |
| 8 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 9 | Little pests until then though , scuffling and squabbling , paddling their bare feet in the sewage channels , hanging about the shop doorways for warmth and anything else they could manage to lay a hand on before the baker or the pork butcher , both mighty men , sallied forth and scattered them like a flock of starlings . |
| 10 | ‘ He used to get through them like a packet of Polo mints apparently . |
| 11 | And as the half-dozen lengthened into a line , he watched them like a file of horsemen on a hanging tapestry , each separate , and the last flagging . |
| 12 | And yet the story which the people of Dodona will tell about the black dove from Egypt becoming their oracle would surely arise because the foreign woman 's language would sound to them like the twittering of birds . |
| 13 | ‘ Mother , she just jumped down from the wall on me like a ton of bricks … |
| 14 | I made the mistake of criticizing you and she came down on me like a ton of bricks . ’ |
| 15 | Scott quotes the case of a man who was persecuted by visions during a period of sickness and depression ; one of these visions was ‘ the apparition of a gentleman-usher , dressed as if to wait on a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland … arrayed in court dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat and chapeaubras ’ who ‘ glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash … |
| 16 | ‘ Something instantly circulated through me like an essence of fire , and striding with wider steps I determined to go at once for my model , to begin tomorrow and to make the most of my actual situation . |
| 17 | ‘ Nothing like a bit of sea air to get the brain cells jumping . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's nothing like a cup of tea , dear , ’ she said comfortingly , as she filled it . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing like a cup of tea to wake you up . ’ |
| 20 | There is nothing like a band of men in their working environment to make a single female feel like a page three Martian . |
| 21 | There is nothing like the sight of death and blood to make old Shallot want a cup of sack or a goblet of wine ! |
| 22 | Even so , in the first eight of the Republic 's general elections they enjoyed nothing like the success of women candidates in Scandinavia . |
| 23 | The Cross-Rail and channel tunnel high speed link are at nothing like the state of preparedness of Jubilee Line , that 's going ahead now after a lot of work , er th it it will not be the case er it that you can do either of those very quickly , Cross-Rail 's only just started going through the House of Commons . |
| 24 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 25 | Whilst the attention paid to foreign languages in this country is increasing , it is nothing like the importance of English abroad . |
| 26 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 27 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 28 | You then face it with another wardrobe , or if not a wardrobe you 'll face it with something like a chest of drawers and the and put a c er er a wrapper over that and then upside down on top of that th there would be a dressing table , and they would face in . |
| 29 | It provides us with something like a snapshot of meaning . |
| 30 | It was something like a hierarchy of sort , but never castrating the woman . |