Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 2 | Series 444 round and 555 flat Cotman Brushes from Winsor & Newton are ranges of pure synthetic brushes which have fibres of differing thicknesses to help them perform like sable . |
| 3 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 4 | PLUG ARE a cheerful four-piece with a singer who likes to think he looks like Morrissey but actually bears a closer resemblance to a slightly wobbly Eddie Tenpole Tudor , and reveals an easy to spot Cud fixation . |
| 5 | Dermot , you see , is an Elvis fan , and given the right stimulants , has been known to think he looks like Presley ( although , as one bemused clubber from Leeds commented , ‘ He looks more like a young Max Bygraves ’ ) . |
| 6 | Cover the log with the rest of the mixture , using a fork to make it look like bark . |
| 7 | To make it look like suicide , the killer would have to get the unconscious — or possibly already dead — man across two metres of rough , stony ground . |
| 8 | After her death Jones planned to place the body in the car with the engine running and push the pipe through the window to make it look like suicide . |
| 9 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 10 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle , 31 , of Grafton Drive , Upton , killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 11 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 12 | The prosecution alleges that Gilfoyle , 31 , of Grafton Drive , Upton , killed her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 13 | The prosecution allege Gilfoyle murdered her and tried to make it look like suicide . |
| 14 | ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass . |
| 15 | You know : the things youngsters stick on their cars to make 'em look like racers — but I 've never seen it done to a clapped-out old van before . ’ |