Example sentences of "around [adv] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Tatyana Scholl , the West German who was to win the Miss Bikini ( physique ) class , took time out from her press-ups to waddle around nervously like a weight-lifter eyeing the bar . |
2 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
3 | And he used to have a small stand on it do you see , to hold the barrel , and then he could manoeuvre around just like a machine gun . |
4 | seem to hang around here like a magnet do n't they ? |
5 | ‘ Oscar knows the countryside around here like the back of his paw . ’ |