Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's obvious that bands like The Sisters Of Mercy and Fields Of The Nephilim have taken various things from The Birthday Party . |
| 4 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
| 5 | However , some of his advice to Jane Fowler looks like the utterings of someone who enjoys that elevated status rather too much . |
| 6 | But if KaDeWe looks like the others inside , there is something very different about it outside . |
| 7 | A damp sleeping-bag on a lumpy ground sheet , under canvas that drips and flaps like the sails of a round-the-world yacht , falls pretty short of the mark . |
| 8 | John , it sounds like a mugs ' game to me . |
| 9 | Dealers from all over the UK will be there and it sounds like a historians . |
| 10 | Aye , it sounds like the stitches right enough . |
| 11 | Sounds like the boys and girls are go having a good time at play time does n't it ? |
| 12 | Well it sounds like the procedures were quite formal , quite highly formal . |
| 13 | Not sure of the music policy , but the name sounds like the ingredients of a takeaway from a less salubrious Chinese . |
| 14 | For them to say either of these records sounds like The Stones or The Faces is insane . |
| 15 | Sounds like the police station , Wexford thought . |
| 16 | It sounds like the trumps ! |
| 17 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 18 | The list of those who receive set-aside payments in The Sunday Times article reads like the pages of ’ Burke 's Peerage ’ . |
| 19 | In 1292 , Amadeus V of Savoy bought thirty-six silver cups with silver feet , an almsboat , a set of knives and other plate from a Parisian goldsmith on his way to visit Edward I. Seven years later , the list of plate and jewels bought in Paris for Margaret , Philip the Fair 's sister , before her marriage in 1299 to Edward I reads like the contents of Aladdin 's cave . |
| 20 | Its a strange love affair for the jockeys … they take all the knocks and falls like the pros … but at the end of the race there 's no bounty just the bumps and bruises |
| 21 | Antelopes such as the long-necked gerenuks , the even longer-necked giraffes and pachyderms like the elephants and the black rhinos have all stretched upwards for their sustenance . |
| 22 | In India at Diwali , the festival of lights , houses are lit with candles and the Earth becomes like the heavens . |
| 23 | Well she 's got , she said she just wears the three , I do n't think she likes like the trousers . |
| 24 | ‘ A woman cooks like a birds sings ’ is their motto . |
| 25 | Well , he he he works like the clappers he does ! |