Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 2 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |
| 3 | Right that you know how to spell you know how to spell kit like a football kit or your gym kit . |
| 4 | In performing calculations we know exactly what to do and the answers fit nature like a glove . |
| 5 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 6 | Now fair enough , the Syclone looks like a barn door , and chews fuel like a jet fighter , but , if you like fast cars , there is simply nothing that even gets close for the price . |
| 7 | ‘ Dressing room like a cross between Interflora , Kew , and Barbara Cartland 's bedchamber . |
| 8 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 9 | The deliberate cruelty of his words cut Folly like a knife . |
| 10 | ‘ I understand you speak Portuguese like a native , ’ she said , with a smile . |
| 11 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 12 | Mr Moore 's got hair like a brush |
| 13 | Mr Moore 's got hair like a brush |
| 14 | The Limited gathers speed like a snowball down a hill and will continue to pump you faster and faster towards the horizon , reaching its peak power in each gear just 300rpm short of the engine 's 6800rpm red line . |
| 15 | He actually wants to play sax like a guitar ! |
| 16 | Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it 's time to get up . |
| 17 | But the consultant in charge says he ca n't run casualty like a supermarket . |
| 18 | To the man of reason , that as a physically and mentally distinct person he should look after his own interests seems self-evident like a geometrical axiom , that he should care for others seems to require proof like a theorem . |
| 19 | And , as a consequence , a phenomenon , peculiar to the species , called ‘ belief ’ , takes hold like an infection , or on-going plague , and in the course of time a formidable hierarchical structure develops . |
| 20 | Then Dratslinger 's howling lamentarion screamed out a few chords , Tumblejack began to give tongue like an animal in severe affliction , and the true invocation began . |
| 21 | wearing revenge like a badge on his heart . |
| 22 | Hunts , sometimes by day but regularly in dusk , usually in small parties , often flying close to an observer , normally quartering ground like a harrier . |
| 23 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 24 | He was tired of wrestling with it , brooding about it , sometimes looking at his bride 's back with violent puzzlement ; but now , surrounded by this covert attention , he was glad to let it go : he would take tea like a lord with his family . |
| 25 | Often found on good daysacks , the waist strap does n't take weight like a hip belt but it does provide extra stability . |
| 26 | ( Even my vision seems rank like the gelling of sour milk . ) |
| 27 | Does not take root like the badger . |
| 28 | Everyone paints devotion like an artist painted all his portraits of women , after the appearance of the women he loved . |
| 29 | DEF LEPPARD : ‘ Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad ’ primp metal unit take a third single from their recent ‘ Adrenalize ’ LP , to follow their Top 40 hit ‘ Make Love Like A Man ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll force that little bastard out of your head if it 's the last thing I do ! ’ he bit out , hatred on his face as he took her , made love like the enemy he was . |