Example sentences of "he [verb] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 2 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 3 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
| 4 | He wore the flying helmet he had affected on the morning of his arrival and those goggles which , when removed , had left him looking like a barn owl , white-ringed eyes blinking in a smut-flecked face . |
| 5 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 6 | The financial community was also shocked by a recent photograph showing him looking like a down and out with flowing locks and a long white beard and wearing dirty jeans and trainers . |
| 7 | But you do n't want him to behave like a husband ? |
| 8 | Orwell once modestly remarked that Joyce 's Ulysses made him feel like a eunuch taking singing lessons , and Waugh 's artist-hero in Brideshead briskly calls modern art bosh . |
| 9 | And I make him work like a dog ! |
| 10 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 11 | Edward Crumwallis was tall , sunken-cheeked , and he bent his neck and head forward towards his companions , making him look like a bird of prey with indigestion . |
| 12 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 13 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 14 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 15 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 16 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 17 | That made him look like an idiot . |
| 18 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |
| 19 | Or ‘ Hot Thing ’ , where his descending drone-chant of the title makes him sound like a machine , subjugated to the moronic sex-beat . |
| 20 | ‘ You make him sound like a nut-case . ’ |
| 21 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 22 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 23 | The LP , as yet untitled , will showcase him chattering like a sten-gun over a slinky , African-ish reggae backing . |
| 24 | I 've seen him crying like a child over a dead baby he carried in . |
| 25 | The balustrade beside him looked like the shelves of a hosiery shop : dozens of pairs of silk stockings hung from it or lay in piles on the flagstones beside the brass six-pounder . |
| 26 | The sight of it made him whimper like a child and fall to his knees again . |
| 27 | Glancing at his figure , Laura felt the old longing for him twist like a knife in her stomach . |
| 28 | ‘ She had him behaving like a schoolboy . |
| 29 | THE DREAM : ‘ She had him behaving like a schoolboy . |
| 30 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |