Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft solder joins like a glue , without significant interdiffusion ( or exchange ) with the metals it bonds , leaving the composition of metal and solder essentially unchanged . |
| 2 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 3 | He lives like a farmer . |
| 4 | He is also a kind of consultant that 's less well-known , he 's supposed to run the art market — lives like a tycoon , but he really loves painting . |
| 5 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 6 | Phhor stinks it stinks like a sewer |
| 7 | Stinks like a nest o' polecats down there , ’ he said . |
| 8 | There 's Tony never out of the bath and Nutty never in it , one stinks like a knocking shop the other like a nest of polecats ; I 'm beginning to wonder how they 'd look on the mantelpiece but do n't let on I said so ! |
| 9 | You ca n't even pick up every quiet guy who dresses like a skinhead and lives with blondie . |
| 10 | He dresses like a woman , the type of tryst he keeps is best hidden under the cloak of darkness . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She dresses like the offspring of the vicar and his cleaning lady . |
| 12 | The man stands like a kouros , left foot forward , but differs from one not only in the calf and the arms raised to hold it , but in having a beard and a cloak . |
| 13 | Looking eastward , the tall column to the memory of Captain Cook , a local lad , stands like a lighthouse on the purplish blue heights of Easby Moor . |
| 14 | Because in my lifetime bands like The Beatles have helped me , and even Bob Marley . |
| 15 | But , while pop bands like The Tremeloes and The Searchers seemed to be smiling just because they were on TV and feeling famous , The Small Faces had much cooler smiles . |
| 16 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 17 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 18 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 19 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 20 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's obvious that bands like The Sisters Of Mercy and Fields Of The Nephilim have taken various things from The Birthday Party . |
| 22 | Alongside , a slimy sausage glistens like a dog 's turd on the side of the plate . |
| 23 | She always looks like a sack of spuds she does |
| 24 | Over 300lbs of oscillating blubber held modestly together by a taffeta jock-strap which serves to keep one cheek from slapping the other — the whole lot topped by a hairstyle which looks like a Sainsbury 's Catherine Wheel . |
| 25 | Bill confesses : ‘ My house usually looks like a tip . |
| 26 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 27 | It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics . |
| 28 | Fashion : Modesty blaze The new swimwear looks like a cover-up — but Nilgin Yusuf says it still provides plenty of opportunity to show off |
| 29 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
| 30 | At first glance , Tony wearing his off-duty clothes , a panama hat and blazer looks like a cricket umpire , but his line of work is far , far battier . |