Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not he was altogether comfortable in such a role is another matter ; when Lawrence Durrell once suggested to him that he was not a Christian at all but more like a Buddhist or a primitive he replied only with a question , " Perhaps they have n't found me out yet ? " |
| 2 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 3 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 4 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 5 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 6 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 7 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 8 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 9 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 10 | John Smith sounds more and more like a left-of-centre Conservative minister . |
| 11 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 12 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |