Example sentences of "her [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was broken with compassion as he watched her crashing like a falling star , pulled by gravity and centripetal forces towards the consummation of the sun and in a moment of weakness he relaxed his will . |
| 2 | She 'll never get her to go like that cos her legs are too stiff ! |
| 3 | Apanage led the company , carrying a large glass lantern ; her pale , tiny shape made her appear like a spirit herself . |
| 4 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |
| 5 | Seeing her die like that , it 's hit you badly . |
| 6 | Compton Mackenzie truly said that while it is easy for a woman to behave like a man , it is impossible for her to behave like a gentleman . |
| 7 | He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her . |
| 8 | It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's . |
| 9 | Catch that , ’ Elinor called as she ran after a greasy , paper napkin , her gold satin pleats swirling around making her look like a giant sunflower . |
| 10 | I 'm making her look like a bad mother . |
| 11 | She barely has time to recover before Nina Myskow breezes in with a smile that makes her look like a 10-year-old ( a ten-year-old Stilton , that is ) , hurls her customary , ‘ Hello , you old bag , ’ and her reflection kisses the air beside my cheek . |
| 12 | She did n't want false teeth ; they would make her look like an old maid . |
| 13 | Her loose yellow hair and the white hospital nightgown made her look like a sick child . |
| 14 | Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown . |
| 15 | This has the immediate effect of making her look like an extremely expensive deco doll . |
| 16 | The one her husband had said made her look like a Queen . |
| 17 | To my eyes this made her look like a strip-dancer at a funeral . |
| 18 | And Mala had put on a figure-hugging neck-to-ankle suit of Luxipelt , which together with a whiskered and eared mask made her look like on of the slinkiest , most enticing Clovellyan felinoids I 'd ever seen . |
| 19 | Beneath her mink she wore a blue dress which made her look like an overgrown Girl Guide . |
| 20 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 21 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 22 | Congealed black blood stains in the corner cracks make her look like a baby bird on a diet of blackberries . |
| 23 | we tried to make her look like a person . |
| 24 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 25 | ‘ I already told her it made her look like a Botticelli nymph . ’ |
| 26 | Some clothes on her makes her look like a right podgy country maiden do n't it ? |
| 27 | It would be a blessing is n't it it 'd be good for her to look like her |
| 28 | So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ? |
| 29 | The trappings of a domestic servant made her seem like a dove clothed in starling 's feathers . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , nothing sent her to sleep like the human voice , and , struggle as she might , she kept dropping off , then waking with a start . |