Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know not how it came nor when it began , for it has crept like a thief upon me . |
| 2 | ANGRY mourners are staying away from a Liverpool cemetery , because they say it has become like a jungle . |
| 3 | It had felt like a game of hide-and-seek , and Shiona , though at times she had been terrified of losing him , had thoroughly enjoyed the drive . |
| 4 | But it had become like a hunger : his whole being seemed empty when he was out of her presence . |
| 5 | He said it had smelt like a bar parlour . |
| 6 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 7 | It had looked like a melodrama — a little group in a candle-lit attic , holding up their arms with fists clenched and swearing to do or die . |
| 8 | It 's gone like a dream , it 's er I 've had no major problems with it at all . |
| 9 | No , it , it 's , it , it , it 's coloured like a fire , fire , fire engine red and all the other things , but it , it 's a commercial vehicle a roll-on roll-off type of vehicle , which you can buy commercially and , and adapt for Fire Service use , and there 's erm I should think there must be about half a dozen pods now , erm at High Wootton , in fact police services are using it , Thames Valley Police I remember coming up here to , to take the idea back , erm I saw yesterday at Hungerford , er the police there going with their pods to , |
| 10 | Imagine then that there 's this group of people , if , can you see now , it 's made like a fish bone , and that , that 's the whole idea , a fish bone diagram . |
| 11 | She 's alright yeah , well I , I bought her a book but it 's one of these , it 's like a talking book a Disney one , it 's got like a keyboard down the side and you press certain pads and it makes a noise and I thought oh rather than just getting an ordinary book , I thought that would be quite good |
| 12 | On that one it sort of leaves a disk , it 's got like a bar underneath |
| 13 | Oh it sounds as if it 's got like a K on it |
| 14 | And it 's got like a hood thing . |
| 15 | and like a big tie through the , the waist and the top is like white edge with navy and it 's got like a sailor collar at the back |