Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She dresses like the offspring of the vicar and his cleaning lady . |
| 2 | Looks like a pair of yours . |
| 3 | make laughing , a derogatory terming degenerate or C , a penis that 's so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles ? |
| 4 | No C , a penis so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles , they 'll be killing themselves wo n't they ? |
| 5 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 6 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 7 | Legislation in the nineteenth-century Russian Empire looks like a series of royal fiats , but the laws whch freed the serfs emerged from a process which the tsar barely understood and over which he had only partial control . |
| 8 | Dhallagiri in Nepal , the peak that looks like a fish tail ( right ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I think you 're horrid to tell me lies too , and make out that when you 're married you 're going to get up to horrible … such disgusting … with that man who looks like a fish with cold yellowish eyes and greeny-yellow skin … . ’ |
| 10 | At the sides the cathedral is built of red brick and looks like the headquarters of some great insurance company before computers replaced clerks . |
| 11 | He drinks like a fish ! |
| 12 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 13 | SODI IN PIT Any epithet which does not accurately convey what it intends , such as ‘ Sober as a judge ’ , ‘ Silly nit ’ , ‘ He swims like a fish ’ , ‘ He 's only half-alive ’ , and so on |
| 14 | The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs . |
| 15 | But a duck always behaves like a duck , whatever his social conditioning , upbringing or training ! |
| 16 | A wriggling , long-tailed kite leaps like a sperm |
| 17 | The action of the lungs works like a bellows which enriches the internal fire where food is converted into energy . |
| 18 | A lot of the women , young girls for the most part , came overland as I had , packed in steamers and trains like the fish they were to gut . |