Example sentences of "what [vb past] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 2 | Surprised by what seemed like a complete change of subject , Robbie nevertheless shook her head . |
| 3 | But there are two other ways in which things could change drastically , making what seemed like a good idea turn very bad indeed . |
| 4 | Endill did not move for what seemed like a long time . |
| 5 | It was going to take Le Roux time to resolve the legal issues and to raise the £8 million , so to prevent the deal slipping away , he came up with what seemed like a clever wheeze at the time : Norton chairman Jimmy Tildesley would buy FUS personally , and ‘ warehouse ’ the company until Norton had the funds to buy it from him . |
| 6 | For a moment there was a stunned silence from his workmates and then pent-up breath was released in what seemed like a communal sigh , before the chief waggoner yelled , ‘ Come on ! |
| 7 | The toothless old mare only turned her head and gave Granny what seemed like a horsey laugh too . |
| 8 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 9 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 10 | In what seemed like a bizarre dress rehearsal of the fate awaiting his namesake , the Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson , words like ‘ drugs ’ , ‘ disgrace ’ , ‘ cheat ’ and ‘ liar ’ recurred in almost every newspaper . |
| 11 | Now she was in what seemed like a natural theatre , a deep , round hollow in the ground . |
| 12 | As word of what seemed like a miraculous survival spread , the gloom within Palestinian communities throughout the Middle East turned to joy . |
| 13 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 14 | The band came for what seemed like a Royal visit to the EMI CD plant at Swindon , to see their song become the 100 000 000th disc to be produced there . |
| 15 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 16 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 17 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |
| 18 | By the evening the French , who lacked archers , had been defeated by an army which , although numerically inferior , had once again ( as at Crécy ) enjoyed a sound defensive position and what seemed like an unbeatable combination of longbowmen and dismounted men-at-arms . |
| 19 | In what seemed like an innocuous joke , Nicholas allegedly tried to steal a chip from a holiday-maker outside the ‘ Confusion Bar ’ in San Antonio on the holiday island of Ibiza . |
| 20 | Ace looked up from where she was starting to fit the parts together into what looked like a home-made machine gun . |
| 21 | I saw a corner of what looked like a rusted iron plate protruding from a pile of brick rubble . |
| 22 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 23 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 24 | A wooden gate at the side of the house led to a neatly tended garden at the back , the lawn sloping down to the river , with a path of paving stones laid along the middle , ending on the edge of the waters at what looked like a small landing-stage , perhaps once used to moor a small boat or punt , but apparently ( as Lewis shone his torch across it ) not in recent use . |
| 25 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 26 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 27 | As she looked up she saw what looked like a loud speaker in one corner of the room . |
| 28 | He left hold of one arm and thrust his hand into his coat pocket and brought out what looked like a narrow tube ; then glancing first one way then the other , he said : ‘ This wo n't hurt you and you 'll come quietly . ’ |
| 29 | He hit what looked like a tremendous shot and the wind should have pushed it back left-to-right , but it did n't . |
| 30 | THE paper was headed by a trompe l'oeil logo ( I think it is called ) , saying Trebor on what looked like a rippled label . |