Example sentences of "they [vb base] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They seem like a private club of legal beings with a special language and their own incomprehensible codes of behaviour ; a body of disinterested arguers , thriving like malevolen parasites on human tragedy and avarice .
2 Er , I think they sound like a good set of people you can work with , though .
3 There 's a band called Moby Dick and everyone hates them ‘ cost they sound like a fucked up version of Creedence .
4 These books — they look like a second-hand bookshop . ’
5 In 1987 the Lib Dems came second to the Conservatives in two thirds of the seats and this time they look like the main challengers .
6 And they look like the fucking The Management .
7 They used to fold up neatly as a bat — now , they lean like a broken bike
8 Well , you know , if , if they come like the bloody clappers there !
9 Yet climbers appear willing to put an inordinate amount of faith in a long line of brass nuts and then show surprise when they pull like a hot knife through butter .
10 However , as we shall learn in the next chapter , black holes are not really black after all : they glow like a hot body , and the smaller they are , the more they glow .
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