Example sentences of "[noun sg] was like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 2 | The dark in the bar was like the darkness inside her : terrifying . |
| 3 | The air was filled with sublime music and the sound of burning wood was like the soft crackle of melting ice . |
| 4 | Hope could picture himself comforting Mrs Crump , shoring up the memory of her husband , praising him , assessing him , recalling ‘ mots ’ , reporting favourable comments , and then in would come the daughter , dressed entirely in black , and he would say , would be forced to say no matter what the consequences were , that the child was like the man . |
| 5 | In that sense the child was like the world of Chung Kuo . |
| 6 | His beak was like the tip Of a rose thorn As he pecked for the cheese . |
| 7 | This place was like the garden of Eden , she thought whimsically , and she did n't know if the job here was a serpent 's temptation or a golden apple . |
| 8 | For Yorkshiremen the meeting was like the town turning out to greet the local boy who scored in the Cup Final . |
| 9 | The body was like the surly , recalcitrant electorate of a democratic state , with the mind a nervous , impatient , and ultimately helpless executive . |
| 10 | The room was like the train compartment again , their two matching beds , windows on two sides , blinds and curtains , pictures on the walls , a mirror and a place to hang clothes , but everything bigger , and they were n't travelling , and there was more light in the room . |
| 11 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 12 | The atmosphere in the barrack room was like the first day back at school , with everybody trying to outdo each other with stories of how exciting their holidays had been . |
| 13 | The rest was like the reddest apple on the highest branch of a tree , forbidden . |
| 14 | He shaved but he did not wash and his bright , shallow smile was like the contentment of a piglet fresh from the teat . |
| 15 | Then I resembled in some small way the unfortunate Daniel Paul Schreber , a German judge whose case was analysed by both Freud and Schatzman , and whose father 's ‘ view of a good parent-child relationship was like the relationship between a hypnotist and a subject in his power : a child who experiences a glance , a word , a gesture of the parent as a command resembles a person in a trance . ’ |
| 16 | Isabel 's quick kiss was like the peck of a very small bird , Kathleen 's cheek was downy as a fern-leaf but as cold . |
| 17 | Her chin was like the heel of a child 's foot . |
| 18 | Only on the very clearest days , when the air was like the purest well-water , shadowy blots appeared to the west and north to show where the forest came to an end at hills , mountains … but they were a world away , two , three , four days ' journeying … if one dared . |
| 19 | Many a town centre was like the Square in Arnold Bennett 's description of ‘ Bursley ’ in The Old Wives ' Tale , i.e. a self-conscious commercial area which scorned the staple manufacture in the streets beyond as ‘ something wholesale , vulgar , and assuredly filthy ’ . |
| 20 | The voice was like the soft hissing of a rattlesnake . |
| 21 | Her voice was like the rest of her , cool and classy . |
| 22 | His voice was like the water — it gave an illusion of velvety warmth . |
| 23 | The silence of the valley was like the stillness that sometimes follows a hard rain . |
| 24 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 25 | Viewed from space , the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet . |
| 26 | The forest path was like the strange , disorientating setting of a nightmare . |
| 27 | He said that Fatima 's beauty was like the moon and the stars — ’ |
| 28 | But surely the clock was like the rest , changeless . |
| 29 | The Egyptian legal system was like the French . |
| 30 | Captain America and Billy the Kid had blown it when they believed they could make a lot of money and retire , but life was not simply about economics ; they had , according to Fonda , found their freedom but their liberty was like the statue in New York harbour , surrounded by polluted waters . |