Example sentences of "[vb -s] like a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 2 | You ca n't even pick up every quiet guy who dresses like a skinhead and lives with blondie . |
| 3 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 4 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 5 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 6 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
| 7 | it 's meant to be a bonsai tree which looks like a tree but it 's only very small like that high . |
| 8 | Well they 're obviously not , looks like a pensioner or something , but eh , you know , erm I can , I 'll see if I can get an old , a walking club going with them , you know ? |
| 9 | I use a very small one that looks like a pencil or pen . |
| 10 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 11 | In the Welsh hills , where the Severn still looks like a river and not the characterless drain it is in the middle and lower reaches , there was ice on the road , and this slowed us down considerably . |
| 12 | That looks like a face or something — a beak — it 's a face anyway ’ . |
| 13 | The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals . |
| 14 | The place looks like a fortress and may have been occupied by Greek mercenaries rather than by Greek traders . |
| 15 | Brighton , as someone memorably said , looks like a town that is helping police with their inquiries . |
| 16 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 17 | it looks like a robin that er does n't it ? |
| 18 | Looks like a pterodactyl that does n't it ? |
| 19 | She looks like an angel and she 's a slut … . ’ |
| 20 | BID FOR CGI LOOKS LIKE AN ADMISSION THAT IBMers CA N'T CUT IT ANY MORE … |
| 21 | I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan . |
| 22 | He 's become skipper Mike Gatting 's problem boy , a player who bats like a dream but whose behaviour is becoming a nightmare . |
| 23 | — She eats like a horse and never gains an ounce . |
| 24 | No-one would believe they had a recession on in Japan when they have time and resources to devote to dreaming up and creating things like this : Toshiba Corp has just launched a line of word processors with sound effects — ‘ to introduce an element of fun in the workplace ’ according to Reuter — they bark when you write ‘ dog ’ , moo when you write ‘ cow ’ and make the sound of pouring when you write ‘ beer ’ , and if you recall a text file word-by-word at reading speed , they repeat these and 26 other pre-programmed noises , from sleigh bells to sirens , as the words come up — and it no doubt laughs like a drain when your boss sends it an electronic message telling you you 're fired for being a disruptive influence . |
| 25 | She sits in that bloody chair and drools like a baby and makes as much sense . |
| 26 | He plays the piano , sings like a flea and electrifies the audience . |
| 27 | The person who acts like a chicken or conducts an orchestra for the stage hypnotist may be play acting , or he may genuinely feel that it is the hypnotist , not himself , who is taking responsibility for his actions . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ It acts like a trigger and you react aggressively . ’ |
| 29 | The main thing to prevent is a solid sheet of ice forming because it acts like a lid and prevents the escape of poisonous gases , given off by deteriorating pond vegetation . |
| 30 | It has antiseptic properties to help fight pimples , acts like a cleanser because it draws dirt out of pores , yet at the same time it moisturises and softens too . |