Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rarely speaks , though if frightened it may bleat like a goat . |
| 2 | If the covert researcher is not to arouse suspicion , then he or she must behave like a believer , not stepping out of line by questioning or exhibiting too much curiosity about the functioning of the organisation . |
| 3 | Away from her , he must feel like a boy let out of school . |
| 4 | Groups come together for a specific reason and this reason should run like a thread through the liturgy as well as linking it to the whole community of the Church . |
| 5 | It should work like a dream with halftones because , given that the grey scales are captured PostSCript can work on them with its internal routines to perform some stunning effects . |
| 6 | p. 121 ) ; ‘ Readability does n't mean that your picture must look like a poster , full of bold elements that can be perceived all at once . |
| 7 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 8 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 9 | For World Champion driver Jack Brabham and his Le Mans winning son David , Club 96 must seem like a stroll in the Park , but they were still keen to see the cars put through their paces . |
| 10 | I suppose in the absence of any dumpy Squat females Meh'Lindi must seem like a goddess to the little chap . ’ |
| 11 | The freedom of creation is equally important for Coleridge ; as he remarks to his son , lying beside him , ‘ but thou , my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze ’ , is a further indication of the poet 's personal response to his own ordered Christian upbringing , and the manner in which he wants his own offspring to be free in terms of imagination , and therefore have the freedom of creative thought . |
| 12 | Not the clothes for cross-country , and he would stand out like a beacon on the fringes of the villages and collectives that he must circle like a fox coming to the dustbins for food . |
| 13 | Where the roles have been strictly divided , a man may feel like a stranger in his own house , lacking the domestic experience to share the chores . |
| 14 | For them , making the legal contract of marriage may feel like a re-statement of a previous covenant and , therefore , not so emotionally decisive and fraught . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe one of my words may grow like a seed in his heart one day . ’ |
| 16 | Although it may appear like a demutualisation , it is not . |
| 17 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 18 | On the other hand the Kingdom might appear like a blaze of lights from a city located on high ground which can be seen from miles around ( Matt. |
| 19 | Maybe you 'll feel like a drink after that . |
| 20 | I 'll feel like a seaside postcard . " |
| 21 | That bags quite old so it 'll smell like a lot of things , it 'll smell like school friends even Mum ? |
| 22 | Delia Sutherland remained where she was , examining something unfamiliar in her spirit , something that under X-ray might show like a patch on a lung . |
| 23 | I 'll look like a girl . |
| 24 | I 'll look like a girl . ’ |
| 25 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There 'll be the most almighty fuss and I 'll look like a prize prick . |
| 27 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 28 | And this is important because a man might look very well from one side but he might look like a cheese from another , and that would be a distraction . |
| 29 | MARTY ROEBUCK might look like a man who would n't say ‘ boo ’ to a goose , but his slight frame hides a huge heart . |
| 30 | Equinox in Leicester Square might look like a cross between the Hippodrome and Liverpool St station , but it will be transformed into Britain 's biggest fancy dress ball for Kinky Gerlinky on September 28 when the theme is ‘ Sleaze ’ . |