Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 2 | He leans back , crosses his legs , and looks like a man having an agreeable conversation in his club . |
| 3 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 4 | It looks like a man wrapped in a shroud . |
| 5 | These days , Mr Hurd looks like a man in need of Alka-Seltzer . |
| 6 | And after that we have a man called Heg who I presume is a man anyway , it looks like a man 's name . |
| 7 | It sounds like a man who has squashed five centuries of a nation 's literature in his palm . |
| 8 | He sounds like a man in the great tradition of Hans Richter . |
| 9 | He looks and sounds like a man who feels he can beat anyone in Ireland these days . |
| 10 | On the first day of his reappearance he contented himself with walking about , avoiding people 's eyes , or shovelling at the still melting ramparts like a man with a crime to expiate . |
| 11 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |