Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Snotling unit is immediately broken and treated just like a unit broken in combat or fleeing following a failed panic test . |
| 2 | In this way , with one small rock fall following another , the flow continues to advance , very slowly , clanking and rattling forward like a shuffling slag heap . |
| 3 | It swelled , diminished , and swelled again like an oratorio . |
| 4 | ‘ And built just like a jukebox , I 'll bet . ’ |
| 5 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 6 | He looks much older , and looks more like a pirate than ever , talking in a queer half-American accent . |
| 7 | The luckless creature , who confessed to coming from Leeds as though it were an explanation of the folly , abandoned it all and trudged home like a beaten cur . |
| 8 | But they used to break 'em in ; and that 's funny , the bullocks knew ; they knew cuppy and wheesh just like a horse . |
| 9 | It probably was n't bubbling and smoking away like a witch 's cauldron but I certainly remember it that way What was it ? |
| 10 | The 1922 Committee of backbench MPs is led by Cranley Onslow , stocky , ginger-haired and looking unaccountably like a surveyor who has just arrived to advise on suspected dry rot in the roof . |
| 11 | It was a big stone , not round , but elongated and shaped rather like a mandolin . |
| 12 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 13 | I flew over Paddy 's shoulders , bounced off the bonnet and rushed away like a madman . |
| 14 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 15 | It 's important to get the feeling of weight , et the balance of it right , not make it too light , as if it could rise up and float away like a feather . |
| 16 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 17 | The broomstick dipped its twiggy end and soared upward like a rocket . |
| 18 | He re-entered the domain of ploughed land , far off and spreading endlessly like a sea , with furrows instead of waves . |
| 19 | These are flying beetles that begin their lives in the soil as the familiar white or cream-coloured grubs , fat from feeding on plant roots , horny headed , usually brown in colour , very slow and sluggish moving and curled rather like a large letter C. There are several kinds , from the large cock chafer to the much smaller greenish rose chafer . |
| 20 | The white boat woke , and glided forward like a bird . |
| 21 | You 've been fed and watered just like a new baby . |
| 22 | A real fifties style , it was made of very thin ciré and looked almost like a dress , with its circular skirt and stand-up collar . |
| 23 | He was sunburnt too , and looked more like a countryman than before . |
| 24 | This simple idea was the starting point for Philips ’ effort to enter the consumer market with a multimedia CD product that felt and looked more like a domestic appliance than a computer . |
| 25 | His bed was a small hole in the floor , and looked very like a grave . |
| 26 | Mitch leaned forward and yelled into the count 's ear and instantly the small plane banked and screamed downwards like a stone from a catapult . |
| 27 | The front was slashed all the way down to her navel to reveal rounded breasts , which rose and fell temptingly like a couple of ripe peaches . |
| 28 | He pushed her away , and she fell to the floor and lay there like a broken bird . |
| 29 | But there was Lovebite , my new victim , sitting there and thrumming gently like a dynamo . |
| 30 | I hate to see ‘ Guernica ’ picked up and cast aside like an old sock . |