Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's ageing population means record companies prefer to promote album bands like Simply Red to adults , over high-cost , low-return pop acts . |
| 2 | Straightaway I thought ; I need a job and this really looks like somewhere interesting to work . |
| 3 | His friends have no idea what he looks like nowadays , let alone what he 's up to . ’ |
| 4 | Well that 's just what it looks like here you just eating al fresco and going back up to the chateau at a night |
| 5 | It looks like both Najibullah and the UN no longer have any relevance . ’ |
| 6 | If that s true then looks like howard may be off too . |
| 7 | Looks like just one blow . |
| 8 | A History of USAFE by Cees Steijger on the surface looks like just another ‘ coffee table ’ book . |
| 9 | Looks like just a test strip . |
| 10 | Just looks like just looks like toffee and they just roll it like that and then do it like that . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Webb 's unhappy Old Trafford career looks like finally being resolved . |
| 12 | Looks like there really was a shortfall in attendance at Uniforum ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 13 | Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er |
| 14 | Just a , I find that she almost looks as if she 's been out in the sun and that it sort of looks like very strong sunlight on her face which is a shame really . |
| 15 | ‘ This looks like as good a spot as any , ’ Matthew decided . |
| 16 | Looks like quite a long meeting . |
| 17 | okay so it , yeah it looks like quite a reasonable number of people possibly |
| 18 | Fashions in dress and diet , ceremonies and customs , art and architecture , engineering and technology , all evolve in historical time in a way that looks like highly speeded up genetic evolution , but has really nothing to do with genetic evolution . |
| 19 | I do n't know do n't say I 'll put them ten it looks like more than ten there though |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder what she looks like now , ’ he mused . |
| 21 | Well , cake , we do n't even know what it looks like now , a piece of cake . |
| 22 | Wonder what he looks like now ? |
| 23 | Scarlet supposed she should be grateful that her daughter had not shaved her head , tattooed her nose or chosen to go around in floor-length black , hung about with chains and crucifixes like so many of the girls on the streets . |
| 24 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 25 | the Mass in C is a more successful performance , much less soporific , though again I am occasionally bothered by what sounds like rather a rudderless account . |
| 26 | ‘ That sounds like just the thing for me ! |
| 27 | This sounds like just what is required to allow space travel through black holes . |
| 28 | ‘ That sounds like even more work to me , ’ remarked Carol . |
| 29 | ‘ Sounds like somewhere the Myrcans would love . ’ |
| 30 | T : It sounds like really , really early rap . |