Example sentences of "[adv] like [art] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it said sounded very much like the words the woman had just used . |
| 2 | In some respects , she could not help thinking , Miriam was just like a man the way she said things … sometimes even worse . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 4 | It 's more like the way the triplet figure sounds . |
| 5 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 6 | Their word Houyhnhnm means a horse , and the word itself sounds very like the noise a horse makes . |