Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside , a slimy sausage glistens like a dog 's turd on the side of the plate . |
| 2 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
| 3 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
| 4 | She looks like a farmer 's wife . ’ |
| 5 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 6 | And after that we have a man called Heg who I presume is a man anyway , it looks like a man 's name . |
| 7 | ‘ When you make your mouth go like that , ’ said Sam , ‘ it looks like a baboon 's bottom . |
| 8 | Looks like a hangman 's scaffold . |
| 9 | Looks like a dog 's brush |
| 10 | The ‘ shots ’ icon gives improved blasting power , and the thing that looks like a sergeant 's stripe increases your military rank . |
| 11 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
| 12 | It looks like a school-child 's coat . |
| 13 | Half-way through the movie Ms Dash switches on the mental light bulb and asks her suitor how he can afford to buy her diamond rings on a mailboy 's salary . |
| 14 | In such cases the district judge may , unless the application has at a party 's request been referred to the judge ( Ord 19 , r 2(5) ( b ) ) , on hearing the application ( usually at the pre-trial review ) refer the matter to a district judge for arbitration ( N 19 ) . |
| 15 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
| 16 | It 's thought that immediately after orgasm , a sedative chemical floods through a man 's brain — making him very sleepy , unless he fights against it . |
| 17 | Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . |
| 18 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 19 | The decision about which size generator to buy depends upon a yacht 's battery and the power drain it must handle . |
| 20 | During pregnancy , alcohol passes from a mother 's bloodstream into her baby through the placenta and can affect the baby 's development , particularly in the early stages of pregnancy . |
| 21 | As with malt whisky , much depends on a distiller 's source of water as well as how and where he ages his spirit . |
| 22 | Few people realise just how much depends on a man 's reputation even in this day and age . |
| 23 | Official documentation depends on a tribe 's recognition by the United States government , and for tribes that never signed official peace treaties with Washington ( and many did not ) , members of those tribes lack certificates of official Indian ancestry . |
| 24 | Caterham tends to compete , he says , with the ‘ hot hatches ’ such as the Golf GTI , a huge surprise considering that a Golf has four comfortable seats and can carry a respectable amount of luggage while the Seven arrives at a buyer 's door in several cardboard boxes , has two seats , no doors or luggage space to speak of and , in the words of one reviewer , ‘ is likely to blow your teeth out at much over 80 mph ’ . |
| 25 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 26 | ANDREW BARCLAY and Sons 0-4-0ST No 1680 of 1920 prepares for a day 's work on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway . |
| 27 | The value of redundancy payments increases with a worker 's length of service and any break deprives workers of their rights to payments . |
| 28 | We 've got what amounts to a lifetime 's supply of Crystal Clear airline to give away to the best idea for making the most of your free filter matting . |
| 29 | A strange thing hangs by a man 's thigh , under its master 's clothes . |
| 30 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |