Example sentences of "and [vb infin] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 2 | Fie , that you should imagine otherwise ! ’ she said lightly , adding on a more serious note , ‘ During the past months , I learned to speak and act like the duchess your wife — but in these last days I have learned to think like her also ; to believe that I am indeed the lady Anne ! |
| 3 | The mental effect of suddenly sitting up straight , squaring your shoulders , breathing deeply , can make you look and feel like a person who can change the world . |
| 4 | Although a CD-I player is really a powerful computer , it has been designed to look and feel like a CD player or VCR . |
| 5 | When a woman 's voice is used freely and has power , it can sound and feel like a flow of light . |
| 6 | In principle , an arts programme geared towards a young adult audience is an excellent idea , but why is it necessary to dress it up to look and sound like a pop video ? |
| 7 | They made me look and sound like a freak : ‘ Gon na build a mown-tine . ’ |
| 8 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 9 | The speaker behind my left ear starts to howl and bark like a dog , and the room shakes with the vibration of rock rhythms . |
| 10 | It 's an ordinary word , a word which tells us how lunacy might come and call like a delivery van . |
| 11 | Uncut diamonds do not glitter and gleam like the cut and polished article that appears at the end of the process . |
| 12 | And then he began to laugh and scream like a man who was mad |
| 13 | At applause he will smile and bob like a child in a nativity . |
| 14 | The same thing happens when he picks up his tenor sax , licks the end of the mouthpiece and proceeds to honk and howl like a man possessed … |
| 15 | What he needed was to break down and howl like a child , and it was the effort not to do so that was tearing at him . |
| 16 | To walk and think and live like a puppet . |
| 17 | You 've come to the wrong committee to try and get like a cash handout , but er we do appreciate the problems of putting on entertainments , and bops on campus . |
| 18 | to come and talk like a child to yourself — no one is listening . |