Example sentences of "he [verb] like [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool .
5 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 .
6 But you do n't want him to behave like a husband ?
7 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 .
8 And I make him work like a dog !
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 !
16 That made him look like an idiot .
17 But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk .
18 Or ‘ Hot Thing ’ , where his descending drone-chant of the title makes him sound like a machine , subjugated to the moronic sex-beat .
19 ‘ You make him sound like a nut-case . ’
20 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 …
21 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 ) .
22 The LP , as yet untitled , will showcase him chattering like a sten-gun over a slinky , African-ish reggae backing .
23 I 've seen him crying like a child over a dead baby he carried in .
24 The sight of it made him whimper like a child and fall to his knees again .
25 Glancing at his figure , Laura felt the old longing for him twist like a knife in her stomach .
26 ‘ She had him behaving like a schoolboy .
27 THE DREAM : ‘ She had him behaving like a schoolboy .
28 Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after .
29 For weeks it threatened to be a cesspit of scandal , and not to be outdone the controversial English striker Stan Bowles , whose behaviour over the years made him seem like a surrogate Scot , admitted that he frequently took drugs .
30 She had religiously sought out the warrant officer chef every day to offer him her tail , and by the sixth day she had him purring like a kitten .
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