Example sentences of "[verb] like [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks like boiling up into a battle in the athletics bullring between Christie , Burrell and fellow American Dennis Mitchell , plus Namibia 's Frankie Fredericks . |
| 2 | For the fragmentation of the vote looks like increasing e.g. by the probable revival of the Greens . |
| 3 | December 1988 : The budget deficit for 1988-89 looks like turning out at £4m or £5m . |
| 4 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 5 | When you keep getting hit on the nose you do n't feel like getting back into the ring . ’ |
| 6 | If you really do n't feel like coming up for a smear at that time , that 's fine and we 'll understand why . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't feel like coming round for a bite of supper tonight , I suppose ? ’ she shouted . |
| 8 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 9 | You may feel like running away from a situation which no longer excites you mid-June . |
| 10 | They were the first of thousands of Tiller Girls who would feel like crawling home after rehearsals . |
| 11 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 12 | Not that I think he 'll feel like doing much of anything for a few hours , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | No the ones down the corner looked better at , but I just did n't feel like standing there in the cold . |
| 14 | The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters recommendations . |
| 15 | ‘ Sounds like growing up to me . |
| 16 | If you feel like going completely over the top , why not grow some rhubarb chard near your gaudy cabbages ? |
| 17 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |
| 18 | I sometimes feel like running away from it all |
| 19 | " But to tell you the truth , I sometimes feel like clearing out of this warren altogether . |
| 20 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 21 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 22 | He felt like hitting out at him , this kidnapper of his daughter . |
| 23 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 24 | I felt like sitting about with my feet up , knitting . |
| 25 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 26 | It is remote ( but accessible ) and sparsely populated , providing a perfect retreat for the beleaguered city dweller , or indeed anyone who feels like getting away from it all . |
| 27 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |
| 28 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 29 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 30 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |