Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |
| 2 | The blind man nodded , spoke up against the weary roar of the airstream that broke like surf on this rocky spur deep in Antarctic Mars , and in his voice was a smile , the first emotional response he 'd given them . |
| 3 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 4 | Robyn peered through a Perspex window and watched things moving round and going in and out in sudden spasms , lubricated by spurts of a liquid that looked like milky coffee . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you any notion , ’ he said ponderously , ‘ of the value of a mind that works like that ? ’ |