Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 2 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she cried , beginning to gesticulate as she did when excited and then to square up like a boxer . |
| 4 | Aunt Louise seemed to swell up like a bullfrog , her eyes about to pop out of her head . |
| 5 | At the mention of this word , Miss Trunchbull 's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog 's . |
| 6 | This micro-colony , set at 16,700ft , was supplied by air-drop , constructed entirely from discarded jerry-cans and covered with white parachute cotton so as to stand out like a sore thumb ! |
| 7 | Frankly , I expected Philippa Lowthorpe 's film about love among the over-65s to come out like a cross between Esther Rantzen at her drippiest and Coronation Street at its dopiest . |
| 8 | But I 'm damned if I 'm going to fart around like a pansy floor-walker watching that no poor sod nicks the Y-fronts , even if I am dignified with the name security officer . |
| 9 | For his blasphemy and irresponsible behaviour , he was doomed to wander about like a sea-tossed ghost , never to rest again . |
| 10 | Good heavens , man , do I pay you to stand about like a tailor 's dummy ? |
| 11 | A stunted little boy suddenly starts to shoot up like a weed , a plain adolescent turns into a beauty overnight , and well-preserved middle-aged men who reach sixty still looking forty-five suddenly make up the deficit and more than overtake their age , all in a few months . |
| 12 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 13 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 14 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 15 | To many of us inside the game of golf , Froggy seemed to stick out like a sore thumb in this world of smooth agents , six-figure endorsement contracts and marketing strategies . |
| 16 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 17 | No , it 's only when you run out of that stuff , cos you ca n't expect them to manage on like a bowl of soup or something can you ? |
| 18 | But there was nothing laconic about his mind , which was known to tick over like a well-oiled clock . |
| 19 | I could have returned to Ipswich but I did n't want to go back like a beggar . |
| 20 | If you are inclined to race along like a commentator at a horse race try to slow down and introduce a pause or two . |
| 21 | If you keep your shoulder still , because it does n't hurt so much , it 'll tend to seize up like a rusty |
| 22 | It looked very probable that the ball was not going to be the only thing to rise in the air — Mafouz himself , Robert felt , was about to climb up like a helicopter , clear of the grass , and hover over Wimbledon . |
| 23 | ITN reporter Nicholson said : ‘ We want her to settle in like a normal British schoolgirl . ’ |
| 24 | And the windows on the ground floor at least were too high to reach , otherwise she could have sacrificed her sweater to hang out like a flag of distress . |
| 25 | Her mum said Sergeant Joe would take care of that Flash Harry , but if he did n't she 'd have a go herself , she 'd bash Archie 's bowler so hard over his head he 'd never get it off again , he 'd have to go about like a man with no eyeballs . |
| 26 | It 's a terrible appetite-killer , sitting opposite someone who picks and fiddles with their food , when all the time you 're desperate to tuck in like a pig . ’ |
| 27 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 28 | Cage a river in cement and iron , and it will struggle to break out like a wild beast . |
| 29 | She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget . |
| 30 | World economic and political uncertainty once caused gold to twitch up like a kneecap tapped with a hammer . |