Example sentences of "[vb base] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ This helps make the gallery seem like a friendly place to them , rather than just somewhere other people go . ’ |
| 32 | The question really was , did being alone with me on a boat seem like a good idea or not ? " |
| 33 | Sitting up , he was overcome with one of those slow yawns that seem like a prolonged agony , which he stopped with his hand , murmuring , when sufficient oxygen had been inhaled , that he was not yet properly awake . |
| 34 | As early as 1950 Norbert Weiner had predicted that automation would result , within twenty-five years , in a depression that would make that of the 1930s seem like a pleasant joke , and in 1965 an Oxford University professor was quoted as saying at one of the OECD conferences : |
| 35 | You seem like a respectable sort of a lady , really , but I ca n't have people laughing like that and screaming and abusing in my pub . |
| 36 | They seem like a private club of legal beings with a special language and their own incomprehensible codes of behaviour ; a body of disinterested arguers , thriving like malevolen parasites on human tragedy and avarice . |
| 37 | Side Two 's opener , ‘ The Slim ’ , typifies Sugar 's ability to slow things down , with a grinding , winding melody that backs Mould as he tumbles through a drawn-out flashback nightmare , which makes temporary amnesia seem like a healthy option . |
| 38 | Under Stephen and his successor , Djuradj Branković ( 1427–56 ) , Serbia enjoyed a ‘ silver age ’ , in which Serbian national culture displayed a vigour and intensity which seem like a brave defiance in the face of the overwhelming pressures from all sides which led in 1459 to the extinction of the Serbian state . |
| 39 | Her contribution to the Conservative cause , which handed Major his victory , was to make John Major seem like a social democrat . |
| 40 | Up until now there had n't been a peep out of the former Jam bassist which I 'd attributed to one of three things — shyness , boredom or a reluctance to interrupt his new boss who , it has to be said , makes Ian Paisley seem like a Trappist Monk when he gets into his stride . |
| 41 | Gamma and 6 Equulei are close together , and look like a wide double , though they are not actually associated with each other . |
| 42 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 43 | Interior panels can either be of fairly basic wood that will be papered over , or fancy panelling , such as oak , that will be left bare and make a modest property look like a stately home . |
| 44 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 45 | Rowbotham says the third years have made the Cherry Orchard look like a cotton-wool factory . " |
| 46 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 47 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 48 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 49 | In many places the Left Book Club made the Labour Party look like a stagnant backwater , while demanding a less disciplined or full-time commitment than membership of the Communist Party . |
| 50 | You look like a young priest in your black and white , no , like a novice , an apprentice monk , you view the world with shocked amazement , you need a real woman in your life . ’ |
| 51 | The great centre which Michael Abdul Malik will build will not be , or look like a political centre . |
| 52 | It will make the Black Death look like a mild dose of flu . |
| 53 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 54 | You look like a drowned rat nothing personal . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ You look like a drowned rat , ’ he commented , raising one eyebrow . |
| 56 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 57 | Mario Andretti , who won the 1978 world championship with the 79 , boasted that the new car , the 80 , would make his former charge look like a double-decker bus . |
| 58 | You look like a constipated panda . ’ |
| 59 | Monster — You look like a million dollars . |
| 60 | Ermine negligées ; bath in milk , numerous underpanties , chemises and other intimate items , all of which look like a million dollars on the svelte Ralston figure , just round enough . ’ |