Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] like a " in BNC.
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1 | Grace Hinkle loves to see me making like an executive and remembering to charge up all expenses . |
2 | There are obviously loads of guitar overdubs on it , but they 've managed to keep it sounding like a record made by a three-piece band . |
3 | Indeed , rather than attempting to teach a chimpanzee to communicate like a human , it might have been considered easier to teach it to communicate like a dog . |
4 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
5 | Then with a renewed effort I managed to get it to moan like a person in pain . |
6 | The man committed suicide after treatment ‘ to stop her thinking like a queen ’ . |
7 | I suppose the way to stop it sounding like a complete mess lies in three things : the way you play it , the exact part you play , and the sound itself . |
8 | ‘ That 's right , I 'm not begging food this time but clothing , have you anything to make me look like a man from these parts ? ’ |
9 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |
10 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
11 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
12 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
13 | Gioella had been irritated by her and , in revenge , had set out to make her feel like a schoolgirl — not only by action and word , but simply by being effortlessly in charge of everyone , with the possible exception of the Principe di Savognia . |
14 | we tried to make her look like a person . |
15 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |
16 | So how are you going to make it look like a third ? |
17 | They were made to make it look like a robbery . |
18 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |
19 | Twist each sheet slightly to make it look like a petal . |
20 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
21 | And apart from the garden that you said that you made it lovely while you were there , what other things did you do to make it look like a home ? |
22 | The bottle had been used to make it look like a sexual attack . |
23 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
24 | ‘ The corpse was then moved to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . ’ |
25 | They found Lady Eleanor dead in her chamber and , concerned about the possible consequences , took her body to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . |
26 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |