Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A weekend 's skiing suddenly seemed like a nice idea . ’ |
| 2 | He glanced quickly at her , his eyes darkening when she merely nodded like an obedient puppet . |
| 3 | The big man suddenly collapsed like a wet parchment . |
| 4 | On the train ride home , the compartment no longer seemed like a compact travelling home . |
| 5 | ‘ It just seemed like a ridiculous idea but I thought it was a nice place to go and have a look around , ’ he admits . |
| 6 | It just seemed like an interesting challenge . |
| 7 | This soon looked like an unobjective decision , as Karpov secured his pawn advantage . |
| 8 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 9 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 10 | Yesterday seemed like a bad dream , but when he went downstairs , he saw the covered picture . |
| 11 | He always felt better there , and he still felt like a good wash ; he needed to get rid of all this sweat and clamminess , wash all the dust and the lead off his face and hands . |
| 12 | Comforting images of Sir Len batting still fell like a warm velvet hood over Yorkshire eyes . |
| 13 | On paper , Olympia & York still looked like a good thing to the institutions who gave their money . |
| 14 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 15 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 16 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 17 | Yet he still looked like an academic , or a businessman , with those thick-rimmed glasses and the glossy hair carefully sleeked back over his ears . |
| 18 | It still sounded like an express train in the confines of the small garage . |
| 19 | He also seemed like a cruel one to her . |
| 20 | There seemed little point in launching into the saga of her engagement , and it also seemed like an ideal opportunity to tell Piers obliquely that she was n't emotionally involved with him . |
| 21 | She also looked like a total wreck ! |
| 22 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 23 | With his fasting and commitment to non-violence , the diminutive Chavez often seemed like a Spanish-speaking Gandhi . |
| 24 | It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility . |
| 25 | Yet , at the same time , he could not bear the feeling that , if the career tides were receding from him , then his family 's response of withdrawing too , into their own remedies and inevitable independence , might leave him quite beached like an old wreck on the shore . |
| 26 | The three years stretching ahead seemed like a long time , then , worth buying a little house in Rummidge for ( Robyn 's father lent her the money for the deposit ) rather than paying rent . |
| 27 | It also sprayed urine in a desultory fashion , but never behaved like a full-blooded tom at any stage . |
| 28 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |