Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Alongside , a slimy sausage glistens like a dog 's turd on the side of the plate . |
2 | Over 300lbs of oscillating blubber held modestly together by a taffeta jock-strap which serves to keep one cheek from slapping the other — the whole lot topped by a hairstyle which looks like a Sainsbury 's Catherine Wheel . |
3 | By now the rock looks like a butcher 's shop , bloody with tattered flesh and strewn limbs , and the woman like a butchered carcass . |
4 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
5 | She looks like a farmer 's wife . ’ |
6 | Item No. 6 : looks like a jewellers ' blow torch , having a fine patination . |
7 | And after that we have a man called Heg who I presume is a man anyway , it looks like a man 's name . |
8 | ‘ When you make your mouth go like that , ’ said Sam , ‘ it looks like a baboon 's bottom . |
9 | Looks like a hangman 's scaffold . |
10 | Looks like a dog 's brush |
11 | The ‘ shots ’ icon gives improved blasting power , and the thing that looks like a sergeant 's stripe increases your military rank . |
12 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
13 | It looks like a school-child 's coat . |
14 | The concept of the self develops from a child 's physical separation from the parents . |
15 | Half-way through the movie Ms Dash switches on the mental light bulb and asks her suitor how he can afford to buy her diamond rings on a mailboy 's salary . |
16 | In such cases the district judge may , unless the application has at a party 's request been referred to the judge ( Ord 19 , r 2(5) ( b ) ) , on hearing the application ( usually at the pre-trial review ) refer the matter to a district judge for arbitration ( N 19 ) . |
17 | When one caller transgresses this line of demarcation , asking the presenter Dolores what she thinks of a terrorists ' kidnapping , she replies ‘ That would be a little outside the scope of this programme Charlie , there 'll be experts commenting again in the morning to tell you what to think of it , why do n't you talk to me about yourself … ’ ( 80 ) . |
18 | It 's thought that immediately after orgasm , a sedative chemical floods through a man 's brain — making him very sleepy , unless he fights against it . |
19 | Her paper The Eidoli and the Angeli is not a suitable one to read to the little study group which meets in a neighbour 's house : the group , it transpires , is actually in touch with the world of spirits . |
20 | The problem with the conclusions in both sets of experiments is that they are based on the assumption that we can infer when an experience occurs from a subject 's verbal report . |
21 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
22 | The decision about which size generator to buy depends upon a yacht 's battery and the power drain it must handle . |
23 | During pregnancy , alcohol passes from a mother 's bloodstream into her baby through the placenta and can affect the baby 's development , particularly in the early stages of pregnancy . |
24 | What happens to a river 's aquatic life when the deluge strikes ? |
25 | You know what happens to a mainliner 's veins ? |
26 | As with malt whisky , much depends on a distiller 's source of water as well as how and where he ages his spirit . |
27 | Few people realise just how much depends on a man 's reputation even in this day and age . |
28 | Official documentation depends on a tribe 's recognition by the United States government , and for tribes that never signed official peace treaties with Washington ( and many did not ) , members of those tribes lack certificates of official Indian ancestry . |
29 | Caterham tends to compete , he says , with the ‘ hot hatches ’ such as the Golf GTI , a huge surprise considering that a Golf has four comfortable seats and can carry a respectable amount of luggage while the Seven arrives at a buyer 's door in several cardboard boxes , has two seats , no doors or luggage space to speak of and , in the words of one reviewer , ‘ is likely to blow your teeth out at much over 80 mph ’ . |
30 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |