Example sentences of "that [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 2 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 3 | Raking the comb through cropped curls that gleamed like polished mahogany , Polly tried to stifle her doubts and the nagging feeling that somehow she should have known there would be strings attached to Clive 's offer no matter how much he protested otherwise . |
| 4 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 5 | It was in an adult education college where the long corridors were lined with notice-boards and lists that fluttered like dead leaves as he walked past . |
| 6 | Then she thought of the blackberrying and the melon , of the feathered hens that laid eggs , and of the church eagle of glinting metal that glowed like gold . |
| 7 | Profit that glowed like beads in a smoked-glass display . |
| 8 | The walls were covered with a riot of colourful designs , patterns that swirled like those on a headster-time blouson . |
| 9 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 10 | And that leaves out Path statements that read like a road map of your hard disk . |
| 11 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 12 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 13 | When you were down there , amongst flaked paint and washing that zigzagged like bunting , when you walked between palm trees and ramshackle fruit stalls , dodging ancient buses and rattle-trap motorbikes , it all seemed haphazard . |
| 14 | As his fingers casually brushed her neck Laura froze , her nails biting into the palms of her hands at the sudden , shuddering quiver that zigzagged like lightning through her tired body . |
| 15 | She had given him some newspaper torn into squares and a glass of dark-brown liquid that tasted like spanish water . |
| 16 | ‘ Some sort of mayonnaise spread that tasted like chopped up cardboard with bits in it . |
| 17 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |
| 18 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 19 | Five feet four or five at the most , looking almost as round as he was high , with a balding pate that rose like a monk 's tonsure through an unruly and still retreating fringe . |
| 20 | silence that rose like walls around her . |
| 21 | As for being out with Susan , Tom and Cyril , that seemed like an eternity ago . |
| 22 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 23 | that 's , that seemed like a total hundred percent that was |
| 24 | I joined in on Laura 's side with Edward as pig-in-the-middle , windmilling for the hat that sailed like a Frisbee between us , until we collapsed , panting with laughter , then stared in silence at the sea . |
| 25 | The waistcoat was slashed with unnecessary zips that glistened like moist scars . |
| 26 | He was being drawn into that single point of pain that burned like a hot light . |
| 27 | The thick carpet beneath their feet was a glowing scarlet , and the high walls of the hallway were hung with modern tapestries — abstract compilations of brilliant colours that burned like fire . |
| 28 | Her breasts seemed to strain towards him , begging for his touch , and there was a wetness between her thighs that burned like fire . |
| 29 | Blood erupted from the wound that opened like a grinning mouth , spewing crimson over the lifeless figures . |
| 30 | The man had slack cheeks that shook like jelly when he spoke . |