Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But again , schooled by the incorrect idea that it is the carbohydrate foods which are the most fattening , many people will very much underestimate the number of calories in the butter-based sauce on their slice of fish , which looks like such an innocent dish . |
2 | From the outside , the small , terraced house looks like all the others in the quiet south London street . |
3 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
4 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
5 | ‘ It has already been said that the Duchess of York will only make a fleeting visit with princesses Beatrice and Eugenie so it looks like that the two royal outlaws will now just be bringing the children to tea . ’ |
6 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
7 | When you look at the moon half of it will be in light half of it will be in dark you will see a moon which looks like half a moon . |
8 | Cos my mum gets like that a bit . |
9 | It sounds like all the others and you ca n't remember what they were called either , can you ? |
10 | Golly sounds like half a horse . |
11 | A grey day in a cold April , one of those winter's-end days when the land looks exhausted and worn and it seems like all the colour is gone from the world . |
12 | I ca n't imagine that I am alone with this problem — stretching a canvas imperfectly seems like such an easy mistake to make . |
13 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |