Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's well worth the trouble , though , firstly because it 's obviously ideal for bringing out the bass in small guitars , secondly because it looks just fabulous , and thirdly because it makes the inside of the guitar smell like an explosion in a spice market . |
| 2 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 3 | He saw Ratagan 's axe flash like a star and bury itself in a hairy snout , splintering black blood . |
| 4 | Leonora gazed at him in silence , her heart beating against the blue chambray shirt like a tom-tom . |
| 5 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 6 | He took the view that mass searches were fine for discovering the hidden body of a murdered child , or even a murder weapon like a knife , gun or bludgeon . |
| 7 | He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway . |
| 8 | But it is theoretically possible to build a special machine — a protein molecule like the rest of the cellular machines — that runs off RNA copies from other RNA copies . |
| 9 | Something flashed in the centre of the cell door like a lens in an old-fashioned camera . |
| 10 | Loopy Lil blew in through the side door like a bundle of old rags with tiny crystals of white on her woollen hood . |
| 11 | She struck again , wielding the frying pan like a club , bringing it down hard on the top of his head with a blow hard enough to cut his scalp . |
| 12 | He knows our manuscript room like the palm of his own hand and is a peritus , an expert in Arthurian life . ’ |
| 13 | Bu But I mean if you get it , a big box from the village shop like no wrapping on |
| 14 | Repeatedly the theme of making the work place like a family was touched upon , and while higher management were not referred to as ‘ parents ’ it was clear that in feeling they were so regarded . |
| 15 | And anyway , a department store could n't really compete with a specialist shop like the Rose Bowl . |
| 16 | He moved diagonally on the tennis court like a ballet dancer might on the stage . |
| 17 | He smiles a lot , talks to himself and uses a tennis court like an officer patrolling it , owning it and thumping around it as if he has n't a care in the world . |
| 18 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 19 | SHe shimmied silently through the window crack like a cat through balanced crates . |
| 20 | Obviously , this is a serious disability fur a proud hunting bird like the peregrine falcon , but sometimes wings can be sewn back on . |
| 21 | We put it to bed in a bowl and cover it in bulb fibre like a blanket . |
| 22 | Laura found herself reduced to silence , her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer . |
| 23 | In the long silence that stretched between them she could almost hear her heart pounding like a sledge-hammer in her chest . |
| 24 | After a bit they sat up and watched the welcome breeze work like an animal through the silver-green barley . |
| 25 | It makes the family business sound like the Mafia . |
| 26 | Dragging myself down the unlit hallway floor like a slug , I coiled myself back , back to the back room , and ate and waited . |
| 27 | ‘ I have not known team spirit like the kind which exists in our dressing-room , ’ he says . |
| 28 | As I woke from the dream I heard his glass eye roll like a marble across the cold kitchen floor . |
| 29 | He was wearing riding boots again and breeches , and over whatever jacket he had he wore a full calico garment like a surplice , liberally smeared with paint . |
| 30 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |