Example sentences of "like a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 2 | She seems like a very happy person , ’ says Sylvia . |
| 3 | He looked like a very good old headmaster , or a decently obscure peer of the realm . |
| 4 | It seemed like a very long time ago when I and others followed Lovat into this house . |
| 5 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 6 | In ( a ) a thin strip of metal is tightly twisted to produce a hollow tube rather like a very thin drinking straw . |
| 7 | But this may look like a very odd form of neutrality to the weaker child . |
| 8 | It sounds like a very violent attack , but does it take us any further ? ’ |
| 9 | I live circumscribed and self-communing — 't is best so — not like a Princess in a thicket , by no means , but more like a very fat and self-satisfied Spider in the centre of her shining Web , if you will forgive me the slightly disagreeable Analogy . |
| 10 | It was like a very bad gramophone record . |
| 11 | A pleasant floral aroma with woody undertones this tasted like a very dry pale sherry with bubbles which had a tannic aftertaste . |
| 12 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 13 | Now it looked grubby , collapsed and marked like a very old deck of cards . |
| 14 | It sounded on the wireless like a very plain translation of a Greek play . |
| 15 | In outline , Ulverton must have seemed like a very good idea indeed . |
| 16 | Stir thousands of artists ' and administrators ' strongly held views into a small pot , and it 's no surprise that the mix tastes like a very solid fudge . |
| 17 | The cushioning provided by the Trinonic units in the EVA midsole did the job well and it feels like a very stable shoe . |
| 18 | Then he complains when she begins to behave like a very naughty child . |
| 19 | A ‘ pact with the Soviet Union to defend democracy against fascism ’ sounded like a very different proposition from an ‘ alliance with Russia to sustain the British Empire against German imperialism ’ — however difficult it might be to distinguish the two things in practice . |
| 20 | She sounds like a very nice woman . |
| 21 | At home he was quite funny but ‘ like a very large baby — he bangs his spoon when he 's eating his boiled egg . ’ |
| 22 | Not in these days , for smoking in , but just a casual yet elegant loose jacket with a tie belt made in straight pieces like a very simple dressing gown — a truly marvellous garment to relax in after a hard day 's work and very good for either men or women . |
| 23 | The return trek can seem like a very long haul but all the effort seems well worthwhile by the time you 're comfortably sitting in the bar at the Sligachan Hotel cradling your glass of single malt . |
| 24 | On the one hand Mrs Singh was told that his drawing and writing were immature , that he was still drawing and writing like a very young child ; yet later she was told that he was very good with a pencil and talented at art ! |
| 25 | It 's like a very poor imitation of a boarding school , except that the discipline is much more severe and the food twice as bad . |
| 26 | I do n't remember waking up with the blinding realization that it was time to go : it was more like a very gradual awareness that there simply was n't an alternative . |
| 27 | Kylie really does seem like a very sweet person , and it is , after all , quite remarkable for a woman with all the sex appeal of Andy Pandy and the vocal panache of Bosco to have achieved so much , so young . |
| 28 | This is a recipe which produces a rich , smooth and gamey-flavoured mixture , rather like a very expensive French pâté , at a fraction of the price and with very little fuss . |
| 29 | On 30 April at the University of Minnesota , in Minneapolis , 14,000 people gathered in a baseball stadium to hear Eliot discourse on " The Frontiers of Criticism " : " I felt , " he said , " like a very small bull walking into an enormous arena . " |
| 30 | ’ Her voice turned tired , wandering slightly like a very old woman 's . |