Example sentences of "they [vb base] like a [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 | They used to fold up neatly as a bat — now , they lean like a broken bike |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |