Example sentences of "it [verb] like the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may look like a crumbling chocolate sundae but it tastes like the finest birthday cake you ever had , covered with cream and laced with rum . |
| 2 | Well , it looks like the only Leeds players in the US next year will be Kelly and maybe Beeney , along with ex 's like wor Jackie , Sheridan and Irwin . |
| 3 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 4 | ‘ It looks like the other side of the road to me , ’ murmured Bill Waddy . |
| 5 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 6 | There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure . |
| 7 | It looks like the local supermarket , but it 's actually Britain 's newest prison . |
| 8 | same hat , so it looks like the same woman so he says , oh my God ! |
| 9 | It looks like the same sort of swarf that 's lying under Orrie 's bench . |
| 10 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 11 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 12 | And you know , the surface is not all i , you look out on the sea , and it looks like the proverbial mill pond , it 's calm , it 's barely a ripple of water but it 's not still . |
| 13 | Jimmy Airlie , chief union negotiator at the company , said : ‘ It looks like the thin end of the wedge . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 15 | It seemed like the right sort of thing to say . |
| 16 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 17 | Rejected by Lost Property ; it seemed like the ultimate insult . |
| 18 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed like the only thing to do before I set out . |
| 20 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 21 | One of his best friends was already playing and the two were big Kiss and Black Sabbath fans , ‘ so it seemed like the natural thing to do . ’ |
| 22 | Fossil bone is different from both in that it breaks like the solid mineral substance it has become , with straight transverse breaks across the shafts of limb bones . |
| 23 | It sounds like the perfect description of the Japanese . |
| 24 | The Boston Globe quoted Citizens ' Chairman , President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fish as saying , ‘ We think the worst is over in New England , and it seems like the right point in the cycle to begin our growth and expansion in the region . ’ |
| 25 | Whereas 2001 stressed bareness , emptiness — not only in space but within the spacecraft too — the Soviet spaceship Leonov is lit up like a fairground , coloured lights everywhere ; and when it enters Jupiter 's atmosphere in a dangerous manoeuvre , it burns like the best firework ever — and survives . |
| 26 | For a long time it looked like the 500 GP career he started just last year would be very short . |
| 27 | It looked like the Red Rock that I 've had . |