Example sentences of "[noun sg] like a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upstairs in his room Dorian 's body shook with fear like a leaf in the wind . |
| 2 | Frightened , Robyn clings to the steering wheel like a helmsman in a storm , her head craned forward to peer past the flailing windscreen wipers at the road ahead , ribbed with furrows of yellow-brown slush . |
| 3 | The Duke intoned the words in a hollow boom like a ghost in a graveyard . |
| 4 | As we pass under the junction bridge a severe blast of wind hits the car like a punch in the ribs . |
| 5 | For years the image of her had hung in my mind like a portrait in a high room , seldom observed but unchanging . |
| 6 | He imagined an old white lady like a ghost in a wheel-chair . |
| 7 | across her pillow like a princess in a |
| 8 | Since both were wrong , it is of little practical significance that where the one saw the change stealing upon the scene like a thief in the night , the other envisaged the proletariat oppressed beyond further endurance rising in response to the call to the class war to enforce the change . |
| 9 | Paralysed with terror , Evelyn gaped at the thundering carriage moving inexorably down towards the tiny girl like a horror in a nightmare . |
| 10 | But the market would be affected , particularly as the disappointed broker had n't hesitated to tell everyone how lucky he 'd been not to drop a packet on Dreadnought , which had gone straight to the bottom like a stone in a pond . |
| 11 | His heart cannoned round his chest like a bullock in a pen . |
| 12 | I tried not to cringe when he chewed my left ear making a noise like a pig in a trough . |
| 13 | I always thought he fancied himself as a bit like a character in a war film , The Dambusters , Bomber Harris maybe . |
| 14 | Belting tales of outlaw attitude like the born-to-be-wild rocker ‘ Ride Into YOur Town ’ are juxtaposed to beautiful ballads , like the piano-accompanied ‘ How Does It Feel ’ ( ‘ … to ruthlessly steal my heart like a thief in the night ’ ) — . |
| 15 | Belting tales of outlaw attitude like the born-to-be-wild rocker ‘ Ride Into YOur Town ’ are juxtaposed to beautiful ballads , like the piano-accompanied ‘ How Does It Feel ’ ( ‘ … to ruthlessly steal my heart like a thief in the night ’ ) — . |
| 16 | I sat for half an hour outside the dining room like a pickle in a jam factory . |
| 17 | He beat about his room like a bat in a panic . |
| 18 | She started to pace the dealing room like a lioness in a cage . |
| 19 | He gently replaced her hand on her knee and said , " You 'll have the place like a palace in no time . " |
| 20 | You need to be cooped up with a Jermiah like a hole in the head ! |
| 21 | She thought of the Germans landing and her grandmother running away with her things on a cart like a refugee in a newspaper picture . |
| 22 | They could hear the wood splintering under his teeth — a sound like a mouse in a shed wainscot at midnight . |
| 23 | At common law , the position is that if the article in question is a standard product like a meal in a restaurant ( Lockett v A and M Charles Ltd [ 1938 ] 4 All ER 170 ) this is a sale of goods so that liability is strict . |
| 24 | Suddenly he 'd arch his back like a twig in a furnace , scraping his stockinged feet for purchase , then take his head in both hands and try to smash it on the floor , only prevented by the cushions . |
| 25 | The passive of hear is also often used to present an occurrence as an attested fact : ( 70 ) This term was also used by the cowboy in the sense of a human showin " fight , as one cowboy was heard to say , he arches his back like a mule in a hailstorm . |
| 26 | Alice turned her face to him and tired to erase from a corner of her mind an image of Louise standing like a ghost in the doorway of the house , watching her leave . |
| 27 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 28 | Something flashed in the centre of the cell door like a lens in an old-fashioned camera . |
| 29 | As always he was nosing out the territory like a dog in a new home ; no objective in view . |
| 30 | He was still sitting in the same chair , staring into space like a man in a trance . |