Example sentences of "[vb past] like the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't drink it even if it tasted like the real thing , ’ comments Stephen , a 32-year-old designer . |
| 2 | It looked , and sounded , and played like the real animal . |
| 3 | The smell of juniper , burned earlier as incense , still lingered like the warm breath of the forest in summer . |
| 4 | The 1896 discovery by Eduard Buchner ( 1860–1917 ) that fermentation could carry on in the absence of living cells seemed like the final nail in the coffin . |
| 5 | Rejected by Lost Property ; it seemed like the ultimate insult . |
| 6 | Sally Gilbert-Smith and Ruth Gilbert from Cornwall — Sally , 28 , who works in Lloyds Bank in Newquay , entered herself and her mother for the competition because it seemed like the perfect opportunity for the experts to show them off to their full potential . |
| 7 | It seemed like the right reaction as well , because everyone thought we were ambient intellectuals going around posing in mirrors and stuff . ’ |
| 8 | It seemed like the right sort of thing to say . |
| 9 | ‘ But you seemed keen to meet me this morning , so this seemed like the best place . ’ |
| 10 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 11 | ‘ It seemed like the only thing to do before I set out . |
| 12 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 13 | Laundering its altar linen and hoovering its aisle carpet often seemed like the instinctive care she gave to anything dependent of which she was fond . |
| 14 | It was stupid — but it just seemed like the last straw , Tom , and what can be done ? |
| 15 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 16 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 17 | One of his best friends was already playing and the two were big Kiss and Black Sabbath fans , ‘ so it seemed like the natural thing to do . ’ |
| 18 | I indicated my chest and made like the Happy Wanderer up and down the terrace . |
| 19 | It was the morning of Emilia Frere 's departure from the Hall and for a few minutes Louisa found herself alone with the Rector , who fingered the brim of his hat and beamed like the milky sun outside . |
| 20 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 21 | All those years before television , she glowed like the Ready Brek kid , safe with her angels all the way to school . |
| 22 | You could forgive Debby Cumming for being a not-so-youthful Alice as she stomped and skipped like the naughtiest girl in the class . |
| 23 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 24 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 25 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 26 | Whole concepts , whole reorganizations of thought swam drunkenly through her head , and lurched and revolved like the drowned woman and her orange : she no longer knew what gardens and houses were for , and their distinctions , once clear , had grown confused . |
| 27 | Hearing British voices talking about anything from politics to music , even listening to old comedy shows , felt like the first step home . |
| 28 | Giving him a mutinous look , she defended for what felt like the fortieth time , ‘ I did n't know about the baby ! ’ |
| 29 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 30 | ‘ Ask Clive , ’ Polly repeated for what felt like the hundredth time . |