Example sentences of "and [vb pp] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will make themselves seen and heard like fireworks on a dark night , and their services will always find takers . |
| 2 | She found a spot on Nowak 's calf that was red and swollen like a severe mosquito bite . |
| 3 | ‘ She was admitted and treated like any other National Health Service patient to the accident and emergency department , and was then seen by a consultant . |
| 4 | The second issue — the risk that some good payers will be lumped in with bad payers , and treated like them , simply because they share some background characteristics with them — is discussed in chapter 5 , under ‘ Credit scoring ’ . |
| 5 | She should n't insist on being called Caroline and treated like a girl in so many ways . |
| 6 | This woman would be the one in the attic , the one nobody paid for , the one they fed because they had to and treated like filth because she did n't seem to notice or care . |
| 7 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 8 | A TEENAGER who claims he was horse whipped and treated like a slave by his foster parents was expelled from school for disruptive behaviour , Mold Crown Court heard . |
| 9 | His records are removed from their metal box and examined like moon rock . |
| 10 | It stood out , jagged and broken like a decaying tooth , and it was covered with pale pink roses . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody cared for her or wanted her , she was alone and forsaken like a worthless rag . ’ |
| 12 | The stiff pink towel glares at me , contorted and frozen like a hunchback caught in the ice . |
| 13 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 14 | and crackled like wildfire through the grapevine |
| 15 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At this time of year , with the flood still some weeks off , the Nile had shrunk back into its bed , uncovering a wide strip of mud , now baked hard and dry and cracked like crazy paving . |
| 18 | They , too , were dusty , and looked like exhibits from a museum . |
| 19 | Sergeant Potter was elderly and looked like someone out of Dad 's Army . |
| 20 | Whoever was responsible for it , Britain had grown into a credit society and looked like staying that way . |
| 21 | Their Lordships also had to look after half-a-dozen Caribbean islands , of which the newest , Jamaica , was much the largest and looked like providing the best prospects for the future . |
| 22 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 23 | One form had a whole line of lateral fins ; the pectoral fins of another were encased in tube-like bones and looked like probes or props . |
| 24 | Three of the room 's walls were made of metal , and looked like the riveted bulkheads of a starship 's cargo hold . |
| 25 | He was out of costume and looked like Charles Paris when he arrived in the back bar of the Red Lion . |
| 26 | She was six feet tall and looked like a gorgeous transvestite , possibly the beneficiary of some dirty-minded sex-change operation , over in California there . |
| 27 | The top of it was arched , and looked like brickwork , the pale amber brick of Aurae Phiala . |
| 28 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 29 | In light of the fact that she appeared to be on the hunt , and looked like a blonde bombshell , exactly what was the man asking her ? |
| 30 | The anger surged and dropped like an errant tide . |