Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a man in a dream , that must for his life run like a deer , and can only crawl like a broken worm . |
| 2 | You do not think like a civilised man , although your behaviour has become civilised , and so he can not ascribe to your actions motives which are suspect — or not according to his understanding . ’ |
| 3 | I have tried the new Marshall Bluesbreaker FX pedal but this did not sound like a real valve amp just starting to distort . |
| 4 | There 's no point in phoning , nobody else 's mother will be phoning , they 're all allowed to stay without any of this fuss , I 'll just look like a complete idiot , and anyway , what do you think 's going to happen , we 're not going to have an orgy or anything . ’ |
| 5 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 6 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 7 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 8 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 9 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 10 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 11 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 12 | She did n't just mean like a misplaced person , floating loose in society . |
| 13 | Admittedly they did not taste like a British dumpling , but Fabia did not want them to . |
| 14 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 15 | There is nothing I can do about that for he harms himself , but I must still behave like a dutiful son and observe a son 's obligations . ’ |
| 16 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 17 | Did she really look like a startled deer ? |
| 18 | Mummy was there it did n't feel like a long day did it ? |
| 19 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
| 20 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 21 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 22 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
| 23 | Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty ! |
| 24 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 25 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 26 | ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’ |
| 27 | erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster . |
| 28 | Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out . |
| 29 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |
| 30 | Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree . |