Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Marr was sporting a huge rockabilly quiff which looked like a French loaf sticking out of the top of his head . ) |
| 2 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 3 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 4 | The small meadow in which the Brownies met was dotted with clumps of bushes and young trees , and most other parts of Longreen Park were wooded , so it could be understood why a pilot should choose what looked like a clear open green space to land his plane on . |
| 5 | When Antoine finished he looked like a floodlit gantry . |
| 6 | Over in the corner , by the window , was an elderly man with a white beard , wearing what looked like a cut-down fez . |
| 7 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 8 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 9 | The hindmost attendant was holding what looked like a large loaf of bread , and was using it to hit the minion in front , which was running almost doubled up , its little gloved hands held over its head , where the pursuing scullion was raining blows with the loaf . |
| 10 | When suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven , the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting . |
| 11 | He heard what sounded like a stifled cry of pain from a shriller voice ; then the commotion beside him resumed once more . |
| 12 | It was no good my saying it sounded like a circumscribed area of peritonitis because I did n't know what was behind it |
| 13 | He hit what looked like a tremendous shot and the wind should have pushed it back left-to-right , but it did n't . |
| 14 | She knew she sounded like a sulky little girl , but his news was a shattering disappointment . |
| 15 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 16 | I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster . |
| 17 | I thought it sounded like a faulty needle but she said ‘ I 've changed I do n't know how many , all on the ribber bed , so I do n't think it 's that . ’ |
| 18 | As she looked up she saw what looked like a loud speaker in one corner of the room . |
| 19 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 20 | Bitterly disappointed , he later complained he felt like a Spanish general without a horse . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to criticise the officials and we have to abide by what they say , but from where we were sitting it looked like a strange decision . ’ |
| 22 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 23 | He was carrying what looked like a huge steel club . |
| 24 | But instead , they turned and mounted the stairs , the one Joan decided was Forest carrying what looked like a large piece of sacking . |
| 25 | Golfers had reported seeing what looked like a human form wrapped in a brown shroud falling through the sky . |
| 26 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 27 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 28 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 29 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 30 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |