Example sentences of "it [verb] to [pers pn] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 2 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 3 | ‘ It looks to us like Ralston 's Fruitshop , ’ Harriet said . |
| 4 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 5 | Every time he heard the sacred name pronounced by this strange voice , Henri thrilled with joy ; it seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave , something mysterious and superhuman . |
| 6 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 7 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 8 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 9 | It seemed to her like an assertion of closeness to the dead Walter that she could not match . |
| 10 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 11 | From the way this lady spoke it seems to me like , like a that , that sort of er organisation , from the establishment . |
| 12 | I do n't know , but it seems to me like a hell of a way to live . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 14 | But it seems to me like it 's passing the buck a bit in the way they 're just sort of taking responsibility |
| 15 | but it 's just it seems to me like , like the boys must be intimidated by girls who actually |
| 16 | They were very discreet but it looked to me like an assignation . ’ |
| 17 | It felt to him like an hour before Nutty stopped Midnight again . |