Example sentences of "of [pron] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of me like a ladybird ! |
| 2 | Ruth sparkled in the midst of them like a jewel in cobwebs . |
| 3 | Then , ducking his head under , he tried to free Gomez 's legs but the line was in and out of them like a cat 's cradle . |
| 4 | The one who rides that horse of his like a madman . |
| 5 | Colin diverges slightly from the McKenna party line that psychedelics should be taken on your own with the help of someone like a psychotherapist , and for illumination rather than recreation . |
| 6 | So too this gnawing of himself like a fox caught in a trap forced to bite off its leg and for pain , every few moments raising its face to howl at the sky . |
| 7 | The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox . |
| 8 | Well I mean , well that 's it , you know selection of everything like the starch foods |
| 9 | How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water . |
| 10 | got sort of something like a couple of Yeah . |
| 11 | Faye patted her growing belly as if already determined to shield her own child from the pain of something like a divorce . |
| 12 | Updates can be applied to individual sheets or , in the case of something like a heading change , to all of them simultaneously . |
| 13 | The lawful carrying of something like a car jack which is used to cause injury on the spur of the moment does not necessarily make it an offensive weapon ( R. v. |
| 14 | The drone of something like a vacuum cleaner or hair dryer — so-called ‘ white noise ’ — often sends a fractious baby to sleep , or at least stops her grizzling . |
| 15 | She stretched her arms out in front of her like a cat , proving that Springsteen was still behind on points . |
| 16 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 17 | She began to run again , down towards it , jumping from tussock to tussock , and then her hat came loose and she snatched it off , scattering pins as she did so , and ran on , holding it in her hand and every so often bowling it ahead of her like a hoop . |
| 18 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 19 | His small , glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit . |
| 20 | He turns on me , holding the knife out in front of him like a torch . |
| 21 | In this version , the man carried a parasol , and the most memorable sequence is when , brandishing it in front of him like a cross between a broom and a weapon , he opens and shuts it in time with the steps . |
| 22 | Hold it up in front of him like a cross in front of Dracula ? |
| 23 | It was a big room with a high , moulded ceiling and a draped bed that stood in the middle of it like a throne . |
| 24 | On the wall was a gaudy oil painting of a bull pouring blood with pics sticking out of it like a pincushion . |
| 25 | I held out my hand , and the terrible , soft-speaking , eyeless man took hold of it like a dog biting a bone . |
| 26 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 27 | The sun sat on top of it like the flame on a black candle . |
| 28 | Grand Slam committee administrator Bill Babcock said : ‘ None of us like the situation , but there is undue pressure on him , and we have decided to exempt him from the rule on press conferences for this match , and only this match . ’ |