Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] like [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briar Cottage no longer seemed like home ; like the cottage where eleven years earlier she had been born . |
| 2 | Some musicians stayed over in the States and opened Hawaiian music schools , plus there were dozens of mail-order courses — it just dispersed like magic . |
| 3 | I just felt like crying . |
| 4 | it just felt like arthritis , it used to get really painful . |
| 5 | And the , the water to bathe in came from the local river and er it was very very sandy and it just looked like mud that you were having to get in and do your bath . |
| 6 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 7 | It just smelt like Christmas cake cooking , and I was n't cooking anything at all . |
| 8 | Did they actually , they thought then it just ended like drop off . |
| 9 | The square , severe face had softened , although the ill-shaved chin still looked like granite . |
| 10 | The little blue flower , ‘ robin-run-in-the-hedge ’ , which probably looked like violet on the first , distant glance , is ground ivy . |
| 11 | Leeds had the majority of play , did some very neat football , but always looked vulnerable in defence and never really looked like scoring . |
| 12 | But the landscape is not the least bit like home . |
| 13 | In his headlights the endless lane ahead gleamed like glass . |
| 14 | Well , on opening the box , they certainly looked like artist 's paintbrushes , finished in silver grey . |
| 15 | But ‘ it just never felt like home , ’ adds Elaine . |