Example sentences of "[vb infin] like a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While he subsequently made it appear like a carefully premeditated act of cunning , being sacked from EMI and A&M was , in fact , a disaster . |
| 3 | I mean , I was on stage when he left and it did n't look like a particularly bad scene to me . |
| 4 | Some clothes on her makes her look like a right podgy country maiden do n't it ? |
| 5 | At last he said , ‘ You 've made it look like a rather nasty plot to achieve my own ends . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd look like a very small Katharine Hepburn . |
| 7 | But this may look like a very odd form of neutrality to the weaker child . |
| 8 | This does not sound like a very practical proposition , at least not in the immediate future . |
| 9 | This may sound like a purely mechanical process in which the most powerful essence wins , without there being any room for ethical or indeed any other decision . |
| 10 | The annual subscription is going up to £8 for the year 1991 , which may seem like a rather large increase to some of us . |
| 11 | It did n't seem like a very good sign . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To anyone looking at them , they must seem like a perfectly normal couple . |
| 15 | This may seem like a fairly trivial point to make as all behaviours have a beginning and end — even sitting still doing nothing . |