Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gives a brief , cut-off little cry like a chirp as she comes , and sinks her teeth into my shoulder . |
| 2 | Fired off in rapid succession questions merely sound like an inquisition with the result that you will be creating anxiety , not ideas . |
| 3 | African tree hoppers gather in groups at the top of plant stems and together look like a spike of withered flowers . |
| 4 | Much heralded , the comics renaissance of the last five years has worn its For Mature Readers Only label like a badge of honour and serious intent . |
| 5 | You had to be careful walking home , not walk like a zombie , sticking your arms out with your fingers like a baby stretching out for a dropped dummy . |
| 6 | No I just sound like a bloke . |
| 7 | From Heinrich 's point of view , you hardly look like a mother at all . " |
| 8 | And then you 'd have fifty hundredths and it 's still look like a half . |
| 9 | Andy Robinson 's side may be a blend of the old and the new , but they still look like the side to beat again after demolishing Nottingham in the first round and drawing last year 's losing finalists , Northampton , in the quarter-finals . |
| 10 | A scorer of important points — he converted five kicks out of eight in a gale which made staying upright seem like an achievement — a strong defender , a swashbuckling attacker and a powerful captain . |
| 11 | I still feel like a newcomer . |
| 12 | Diplomacy is making a loser genuinely feel like a winner |
| 13 | If others offer us alarm calls without their having been previously ordered , they usually feel like an intrusion and a criticism , and will be fended off . |
| 14 | PERHAPS THIS WILL TIGHTEN IT UP Make like a cockroach , the manual said . |
| 15 | Before any girls get excited at the prospect of all these crotch-obsessed men packing out Glencoe bars , and rush off to join a climbing club , I should point out they also smell like a circus tarpaulin and regard ten pints of Guinness as an aperitif . |
| 16 | Probably listening to it , it probably sound like a drill |
| 17 | The most enduring band of their time now seem like a memory bound up in a few classic singles and a reputation for ‘ nuttiness ’ . |
| 18 | THIS is the flowering of our civilization , not Monet 's waterlilies , which now seem like a remnant of a prehistoric way of thinking . |
| 19 | Its proposals will make what has happened up to now look like a day out at the seaside . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're so perfect … you even colour like a rose every time I look at you . ’ |
| 21 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 22 | crazy manoeuvres to nip in front of you and then drive like a snail ! |
| 23 | She began to cry out , then sob like a child . |
| 24 | With applications that actually look like the way you do business . |