Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 2 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 3 | To non-riders dressage must appear to be the art of making the noble horse look like a wally with an even bigger wally on top in fancy dress . |
| 4 | The wind whisked past her ears , her stomach lurched ; she opened her eyes and saw the white , freckled child screaming , his mouth open like a great dark cave , clinging on to the side of the boat with his frail clean-scrubbed little hands . |
| 5 | There are punching sound effects and speech ( via the internal speaker or sound card ) but the boxers react like a stuffed dummy when they 've been punch . |
| 6 | ‘ This helps make the gallery seem like a friendly place to them , rather than just somewhere other people go . ’ |
| 7 | Side Two 's opener , ‘ The Slim ’ , typifies Sugar 's ability to slow things down , with a grinding , winding melody that backs Mould as he tumbles through a drawn-out flashback nightmare , which makes temporary amnesia seem like a healthy option . |
| 8 | And for the youngsters , the Old Swan makes the old village hall seem like a hangover . |
| 9 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |
| 10 | Conceived by the director of ARIEL and LENINGRAD COWBOYS with the ambition of ‘ making Robert Bresson seem like a director of action pictures ’ , THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL unfolds in a style that is characteristically laconic and terse . |
| 11 | Ditherers and mums-the-worders who 'd make even the fossilised Football Association Council look like a Brains Trust . |
| 12 | The winners of our Vernons Live Like a Pools Winner contest in September will all be getting the chance to sample the high life . |
| 13 | In a volte-face that makes Germaine Greer 's change of heart look like a tiny emotional trifle , the former feminists ' champion has switched from the red corner to the blue corner without a blush in the process . |
| 14 | Had he been , he would have made Michael Codron 's chastisement seem like a love paean . |
| 15 | We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding . |
| 16 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 17 | There 's enough explosive power in a really big display to make the twenty kegs of powder Guy Fawkes planted below the Houses of Parliament look like a damp roman candle . |
| 18 | ‘ Those minutes seem like a lifetime to me , ’ she sobs . |
| 19 | Ben saw Rosten 's body tauten like a compressed coil . |
| 20 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |
| 21 | In this world of clean fast-running water , of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth , there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac . |
| 22 | Seated in straight lines on the purple benches and gilt chairs , from above the guests look like a field of giant multicoloured mushrooms . |
| 23 | What on earth can have induced Labour and Conservative politicians alike even to consider hitching their wagons to something which , at first sight , makes the poll tax look like a pre-election bonus ? |
| 24 | The years taken to prepare the poll tax look like a model of wise and thoughtful government by comparison with the pretence at consultation and the shockingly truncated parliamentary timetable with which we are now confronted . |
| 25 | Mario Andretti , who won the 1978 world championship with the 79 , boasted that the new car , the 80 , would make his former charge look like a double-decker bus . |
| 26 | Angry thunder cracks open like a oak splitting down the middle , to take over the horizon , cannoning from one side to another . |
| 27 | The guitars snap like a rat trap and a sense of menace pervades the air continually . |
| 28 | The guitars snap like a rat trap and a sense of menace pervades the air continually . |
| 29 | If guests feel like a meal out , there are numerous pubs and restaurants in Dartmouth . |
| 30 | But after a while the brain gym produces a sense of slipping away , while flashing colours play like a beautiful slow-motion firework display before your eyes . |