Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's seeing me look like an old hag first thing in the morning and not minding ! |
| 2 | When she took off her glasses the sun caught her eyes and made them flash like green torches . |
| 3 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 4 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 5 | The women 's hats and bright make-up made them look like exotic birds . |
| 6 | King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears ! |
| 7 | It was an odd shade of reddish gold and , coupled with their tanned complexions and slanted eyes , made them look like young eagles . |
| 8 | The induction of recruits became a more civilized process in September 1862 when Miliutin declared that their heads need not be shaved and that they ought to be conducted to the barracks in everyday clothing rather than clothes that made them look like convicts . |
| 9 | IT 'S the rematch of the decade — the Buffalo Bills against the side that made them look like schoolboys in Superbowl XXVII , the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 10 | He made them sound like the Famous Five |
| 11 | He made them sound like the Famous Five . |
| 12 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 13 | To some observers , the new generations who were born into this environment appeared stunted and uncouth ; their cheap clothing and strange variations on the English language made them seem like another species , almost subhuman . |
| 14 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 15 | Facially the two men were very different , Kustow 's face blunt , Lever 's hawkish , but the similarity of dress and the starkness of their haircuts made them seem like brothers , or members of some strange cult . |
| 16 | Mais je me dis , des enfants c'est des enfants , on peut pas les faire penser comme des adultes , on peut pas — ‘ I tell myself , children are children ; one ca n't make them think like adults — one just ca n't ’ |
| 17 | You may think you have problems now , but Vittorio can make them seem like fond memories . ’ |
| 18 | Furthermore , these Creole features of grammar do not appear to carry any particular symbolic value either ( see the quote from Hewitt above ) and the contexts in which they occur do not make them look like code switches . |
| 19 | A to help men get sexually aroused , B to make them make them look like women 's legs , C to prevent men getting sexy aroused ? |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't make me suffer like this ! ’ |
| 21 | But let me do it in my own time , and do n't make me feel like a brood mare . |
| 22 | It can make me feel like doubting , it can bring me to the place where I question it , but it does n't alter the fact we can be totally sured , totally certain of our salvation , because God has said it . |
| 23 | They 'd call me to say , ‘ This does n't make me sound like George Lynch , ’ and I 'd say , ‘ Well , do you play like George Lynch … ? ’ |
| 24 | Do n't make me sound like an idiot , Julius ! ’ |
| 25 | Let's face it , no one can make me look like Princess Diana . ’ |
| 26 | Playtex Secrets Lycra-control underwear ( even if they ca n't make me look like Ulrika ) |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , my darling , my darling , why do you make me wait like this ! ’ |
| 28 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 29 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 30 | Sheila , who said she put the cigarette out when told to , said : ‘ They made me feel like a criminal . |