Example sentences of "[verb] like one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ Joe continued , ‘ he said she looks like one of them bloody film stars . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It looks like one hell of a mess , Paul . ’ |
| 3 | from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear . |
| 4 | Not least when their percussionist hits an artificial tree containing a drum sampler , two car wheels and a vacuum cleaner that looks like one of Ministry 's skeleton mic stands . |
| 5 | In many ways it looks like one big cytochrome oxidase blob ! |
| 6 | That famous grin looks like one more performance . |
| 7 | From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier . |
| 8 | You 've got margins set at looks like one point three inches on the left and one inch on the |
| 9 | It looks like one of Mephistco 's junior-staff training sessions . |
| 10 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 11 | Brontosaurus , that looks like one . |
| 12 | He looks like one of the you know |
| 13 | character actually , mind you she does er , it looks like one of those programmes you know er , when you do n't want to be sitting in the front row , if she 's going |
| 14 | Crisis invariably brings out the best in rural people and Baldersdale , when the occasion demanded , could act like one large family . |
| 15 | But although a woman psychologist may act like one of the boys , her sex never becomes irrelevant to her work . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , do n't behave like one , ’ was his father 's final word . |
| 17 | They had a cosy assurance in the obvious existence of a divine architect for what they took to be an elegant and attractive world , neatly designed like one of their drawing-rooms . |
| 18 | In the 1670s the Hudson 's Bay Company must have looked like one of the least important overseas concerns that Charles II and his government had to handle . |
| 19 | Molly Pargeter , a woman of forty , whose hair was kept in place with difficulty , might have looked like one of the larger Graces in the paintings she admired had not her size caused her such embarrassment that she lowered her head and stooped a little as she walked . |
| 20 | By tomorrow night Stapleton will be caught like one of his butterflies , and we shall add him to the Baker Street collection . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Come , ’ he said , ‘ tell me your name , mortal , and the name of this lad who lies like one dead . ’ |
| 22 | When offered the leadership for which he had fought so hard , Law almost lost It by his apparent doubt ; in his speech of acceptance he spoke at length of his unfitness for the job ; when told that he was now a great man and must learn to behave like one , he replied " If ! am a great man , then a good many great men must have been frauds . " |
| 23 | In reality , though , she 'd felt like one of the walking wounded . |
| 24 | wakens my ear to listen like one being taught . |
| 25 | wakens my ear to listen like one being taught . |
| 26 | Built like one of her own sofas , topped with crisp golden curls , she had big blue eyes , a vivid red mouth and three chins to do the work of one . |
| 27 | It accelerated like one of those old twentieth century water-speed record breakers and hurtled over the water ! |
| 28 | But I mean Kathy 's only done like one side apparently |
| 29 | I do n't feel like one , but I 'm supposed to be , well , a physical scientist , so you get that sort of identity thrown at you . |
| 30 | HOUSEWIFE Sarah Fox threw away £10,000 in research trying to invent a floating soap because such a soap called Swan , and shaped like one , was around at least 50 years ago . |