Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sounds like the queen to me . |
| 2 | The southern Pennines offer the shapely cone of Lose Hill ( 476m ) and the sharp poke of Win Hill ( 462m ) : two elegant sentinels that overlook the entrance to the Edale Valley : while at the northern end of the Pennines is Pen-y-ghent ( 694m ) which looks like the prow of a great ship when seem from Ribblesdale . |
| 3 | The result is an implicational scale which looks like the " acquisitional hierarchy " proposed by Edwards and Sutcliffe . |
| 4 | Plus a large , unsightly wall which looks like the inside of a barn . |
| 5 | with a s as we were picking up from last week , a c a c in , in a sense that land reform is , is already taking place , there is this sort of groundswell from the masses that to move beyond the , the moderate policy and that is then formalized in the May the fourth directive which marks like the return to land reform going back to and then y y y y you 've got the implementation of that May the fourth directive and then out of a very difficult position in nineteen forty seven when they , they are under attack from the Kuomintang and i in the spring of nineteen forty seven is actually taken by Kuomintang . |
| 6 | We inadvertently play the B-side first , which sounds like The Clash . |
| 7 | As with the passport photograph that is used to verify the identity of the subject and which functions like the signature in official documents , this function of the face can be detected in traditional portraiture where the face on the canvas is there to represent the true likeness of the model . |
| 8 | Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs . |
| 9 | She sleeps like the dead . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She dresses like the offspring of the vicar and his cleaning lady . |
| 11 | Nor does Anna Massey express any sensuality that could explain why even a bald , bulky vagrant would want to ravish a woman who looks like the world 's oldest pixie . |
| 12 | For a long time Cindy 's only competition was a sad show called Style With Elsa Klensch , a yapping Aussie who looks like the missing link between Morticia and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family . |
| 13 | As one of these was the lord of the manor and another the vicar , only one in fifteen of the ‘ ordinary ’ folk was returned as a freeholder : two husbandmen and a woman who looks like the widow of a yeoman or maybe a minor gentleman . |
| 14 | My God , thought Joshua , she looks like the figurehead on the Cutty Sark . |
| 15 | ‘ Signore , she looks like the other , ’ the housekeeper said after a second or two , ‘ but they are not the same . ’ |
| 16 | On she sails like the Titanic : |
| 17 | And whether it 's Gardeners ' Question Time or Muck and Magic , the central person is a man who seems like the ultimate expert . |
| 18 | Well she 's got , she said she just wears the three , I do n't think she likes like the trousers . |
| 19 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 20 | His apparent rejection of her seems like the rejection of all mankind . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He looks like the brick wall he 's reached , she thought , and walked by . |
| 23 | He looks like the sort of slave sold for a knock-down price ; skinny and stooped , wearing nylon trousers , damp plimsolls , and cringing in his thin anorak against the wind . |
| 24 | He looks like the spitting image of him I tell you . |
| 25 | He looks like the one out of erm you know erm Coming to America yeah , the one with the erm sort of shiny greasy hair ? |
| 26 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 27 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 28 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |
| 29 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 30 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |