Example sentences of "[coord] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ they make no outcries and exclamations in the departure of the soul ; and that they make no judgement concerning the dying person by his dying quietly or violently , with comfort or without , with great fears or a cheerful confidence , with sense or without , like a lion or like a lamb , with convulsions or semblances of great pain or like an expiring and a spent candle ; for these happen to all men without rule … ‘ |
| 2 | At first I thought of these ideas as jewels formed in a matrix of rock like a diamond or like a fragile vase fired in a kiln at Ching-Te-Chin — an emperor 's gift . |
| 3 | On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . |
| 4 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 5 | Does he feel gratified , or like a grand-daddy ? |
| 6 | I 'm like a great vacuum cleaner hoovering up everything as I go along , or like a catfish sucking up all the rubbish in an aquarium . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean like a cook , or like a waitress ? ’ |
| 8 | Altogether it was a little disturbing — the man , the woman , the Omar Khayyam-like details — or like a Victorian problem picture in the Royal Academy . |
| 9 | Or like a whale ? |
| 10 | So , yes , it can help the teacher , like a potter 's wheel can help the teacher , or like a blackboard and a piece of chalk can help the teacher . |
| 11 | The Rottweiler is a robust dog , rather above medium size , neither clumsy nor light , neither tall on the leg nor like a greyhound . |
| 12 | For Benedict had not spoken rationally , nor like a man whose hopes had been disappointed . |
| 13 | It 's a hell-raiser with 24-carat cuff-links and rounded vowels , it 's a freshly squeezed orange juice with a large shot of vodka — and like a Mickey Finn , the beauty of the Bentley is that you do n't know quite what you 've let yourself in for . |
| 14 | He is a beast of burden , an animal for sacrifice , and like a man on the way to Calvary bears on his back the means for his death . |
| 15 | Matthew Arnold would have said his mind is the product of this deplorable age — shaggy , wild , intuitive , uncastigated , and like a magpie in a library — which is radically uneducated . |
| 16 | Making it rich and like a lily in bloom , |
| 17 | But then , and quite different from such pleasures , and like a voice from far more distant regions , there came a moment when I idly turned the pages of the book and found the unrhymed translation of Tegner 's Drapa and read : |
| 18 | Much approved of by Mrs Lirriper : ‘ a pretty little town with a great two-towered cathedral … and another tower atop of one of the towers like a sort of stone pulpit … and a market outside in front of the cathedral , and all so quaint and like a picture . ’ |
| 19 | and like a stream whose surface flows ; |
| 20 | I feel imaginary laughter pervading the mind and like a liquid trickling through the paths of the mind , feeding the soul ; for laughter is a mystic food . |
| 21 | It was a press vilification that deeply injured Bremner 's sense of personal integrity , and like a tackle from behind , he refused to take it lying down . |
| 22 | I had hired a moped in Tiree , there being no bicycles left , and like a multicoloured Batman Snoopy in my Mary Quant cape arrived at the Balemartine Baptist church for morning service . |
| 23 | There were only two men to an aircraft , and like a lot of Pathfinders they had nearly all survived two tours of operations . |
| 24 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 25 | At last the shops opened and like a kid with a tanner , I hunted and sniffed and tasted and tried , imagining what I 'd buy if I had all the money in the world . |
| 26 | ‘ They do it because they enjoy meeting people and like a change of scene , ’ she says . |
| 27 | He calls himself a ‘ midwife ’ , and like a midwife , has only a temporary and external role to play in the process of birth . |
| 28 | ‘ At 13 or 14 , I should have been taken away from my family and placed somewhere where I would have felt loved and like a real person . ’ |
| 29 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 30 | And like a spider , it was horribly fascinating . |