Example sentences of "like [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks like , looks like sawing off and redoing |
| 2 | He had seen others doing that to her in the clubs , and even though he 'd felt like stepping in when their attentions were becoming too direct , he had watched her superbly effective ‘ put downs ’ and stood back in awe . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 4 | As one Shell executive remembers of his visits : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 5 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 6 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 7 | Going into North Road station is like stepping back in time . |
| 8 | Like stepping out of your skin , like changing your face . |
| 9 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 10 | You need one for simple jobs like driving picture pins , and for all sorts of other tasks like nailing down loose floorboards and mending fences , not to mention any woodwork you may be assembling . |
| 11 | I was just thinking what a dozen would look like hanging on my tree . |
| 12 | Mungo wondered whether he should deny thinking that , but knew it would sound like sucking up . |
| 13 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 14 | And I do n't feel like eating out today . |
| 15 | Like bringing in much needed humour ( Gordon Houghton ) , setting the mag back on track ( Stuart , after Gordon and Co left abruptly ) but not until now have I felt compelled to write to you . |
| 16 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 17 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 18 | ‘ I just feel like leaping around and celebrating , I 'm so happy ! |
| 19 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 20 | Wonderful ! — like tearing up the ration books . |
| 21 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 22 | To go on thus is like walking up an ever-narrowing blind alley : the further you go the more difficult it is to turn about ; the more certain and greater the ultimate disaster . |
| 23 | Walking around the base of an active cone erupting these bombs is a bit like walking around a battlefield , with spent rounded cannonball bombs and shattered fragments of cannonballs lying around , and many big battered boulders exhibiting the bruises of a long volcanic siege . |
| 24 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 25 | My sister came here and she said ‘ It 's like walking down a grave yard ’ . |
| 26 | People like walking about with a novel . |
| 27 | Despite the message of Modern Times and our images of modern factory work being influenced by our beliefs about what it must be like to work on , for example , the car assembly lines at Detroit or Dagenham , most people , when asked in social science surveys , say that they experience an acceptable level of job satisfaction at work . |
| 28 | Reading this collection of interviews with twenty five Scottish and Irish women poets is like opening up a box of plain chocolates , only to be confronted with an array of brightly coloured and diverse tasting liqueurs . |
| 29 | ‘ Apart from the boring bits , like opening up , checking the vaults and so on , ’ she mused , holding her breath to see if he took the bait . |
| 30 | ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’ |