Example sentences of "will [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe you 'll feel like a drink after that . |
| 2 | I 'll feel like a seaside postcard . " |
| 3 | That bags quite old so it 'll smell like a lot of things , it 'll smell like school friends even Mum ? |
| 4 | I 'll look like a girl . |
| 5 | I 'll look like a girl . ’ |
| 6 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There 'll be the most almighty fuss and I 'll look like a prize prick . |
| 8 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 9 | He 'll float like a butterfly , sting like a bee , wear the blubber out , and then … |
| 10 | ‘ He 'll have like a styrofoam burger-box and he 'll cut a hole and put like his balls and his dick up there and then he goes — ‘ Oh ! |
| 11 | If we solve that , the rest will unravel like a piece of cloth . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't refer to happenings during that period or this whole fabrication will fall like a pack of cards . |
| 13 | I only say he is a man and will act like a man , given the chance . |
| 14 | He will pursue like a panther and be coy prey , present himself as rapacious subject of desire and fey object of bliss ( ‘ Anna Stesia ’ pleads ‘ praise me , ravish me ’ ) . |
| 15 | But it will hurt , and each time it happens , it will feel like a shock , and a sad renewal of the realisation that a loved companion is beginning to drift away from her , and that there is nothing either of them can do about it . |
| 16 | If his new wife has a child I will become like a servant . |
| 17 | I suppose once we 're back home this will look like a dream to both of us , rather unlikely in the face of reality . |
| 18 | ‘ It makes Black Will sound like a monk ! |
| 19 | Ooh your dad and I will sleep like a top . |
| 20 | Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’ |
| 21 | And hope on the day it will go like a dream . |
| 22 | ‘ The exploitation of workers ; the disruption of native cultures ; evidence of the military-industrial ethos , you will walk like a fool amongst other fools : a tourist , staring at the remnants of the past , memorials to worn-out cultures , galleries dedicated to the ostentation and decadence of slave-masters . |
| 23 | " But " , he added , " I am afraid that to the aestheticians of these days you will seem like a sleepwalker , whom it is inadvisable , not to say dangerous , and , above all , impossible to follow . " |
| 24 | ‘ Not until next week — that will seem like a lifetime away to them ; but I am taking some of them out on Sunday up to Pelham Woods for a walk ; how about joining us ? ’ |
| 25 | It makes little or no difference to bed-wetting and denying the drink will seem like a punishment . |
| 26 | By comparison to what Top Class undertook earlier this year , the trip to Paris will seem like a canter up the road . |
| 27 | But when you go to dancing school in the Fall you shall have a taffeta dress and you will rustle like a lady in a ballgown . |