Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other mandarins in bright silk gowns , booted and bonneted like Tran Van Hieu , were hurrying through the ornamental gardens towards the palace . |
| 2 | Men basically feel really erm threatened and intimidated like by women loving each other or by men loving each other , you know . |
| 3 | Passing the proper guest room and its dressing room ( where Aunt Tossie did not sleep ) Nicandra went halfway down her favourite side of the stair flights to the landing space from which both stairs ascended and descended like swooping birds . |
| 4 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 5 | We were in line with the Craven fault it seemed and in an electric storm the tower and all its domestic equipment spat and sizzled like a jumping cracker . |
| 6 | She was lying on her back , naked except for a short wrapover dressing gown from which one blue-veined breast had escaped and lay like a quivering jellyfish against the pink satin . |
| 7 | She looks very much like Crilly , though her hair is cut and tinted like a soap opera actress . |
| 8 | Her skin was tanned and freckled like a brown farm egg . |
| 9 | The old man was beside himself with excitement , his hand trembling so that the candlelight danced and spurted like shooting stars . |
| 10 | Dust still swirled above the pile of stone and rubble on the floor below it , creating a hazy curtain behind which red and orange flames danced and writhed like living things . |
| 11 | This creates a conflict for them because , although they want to be stroked and petted like any other domestic cat , they are deeply suspicious of the hand that does the petting , fearing that at any moment it may grab them and hold them down . |
| 12 | On the fourth and last day we land in paradise : 45 Sandford Road , Dublin , the home of Helen Dillon , a gardener whose plants are encouraged and castigated like a wayward infants ' class . |
| 13 | The land bucked and heaved like a terrified horse and a storm of baleful magic raced over the land . |
| 14 | She recalled the docks , and the way the sea screamed and wailed like a soul in torment , throwing itself against the piers with a wild vengeance that struck terror into her young heart . |