Example sentences of "[vb past] like [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost immediately he was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of the small attendants . |
| 2 | If the abbey was a marvel of man 's work , the Tor was God 's answer for in that flat land it looked like one of the high places mentioned in the bible where the ancient patriarchs went to talk to Yahweh . |
| 3 | He looked like one of the carefree devils he had carved , with his fat , cheery face , snub nose and large blue eyes which seemed to dance with wicked merriment . |
| 4 | It looked like many of the other leather boots around , but is stated to have all the Merrell features . |
| 5 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |