Example sentences of "it [verb] like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 2 | It got like an auction . |
| 3 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 4 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 5 | It hisses like a snake , growls like a carnivore and snaps out at its tormenter . |
| 6 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 7 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 8 | It became like a chant , a mantra for him ; Half Moon Crescent , Half-Moon-Crescent , Halfmooncrescent … |
| 9 | With the formation of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company in 1848 , Louth became an important junction , for in 1874 , together with other branch lines , it became like the hub of a wheel , with its main line from Grimsby to Boston , Spalding and Peterborough running north and south , the branch going south-east to Sutton on Sea , Mablethorpe and Skegness , and the Louth-Bardney branch going west through the Lincolnshire Wolds towards Bardney and Lincoln . |
| 10 | If you use too many , what you 're playing no longer sounds like a guitar , and if you do n't want it to sound like a guitar why are you playing it ? ’ |
| 11 | I like the way you 've got it to sound like a court report , especially where you 've used the reported speech for the Judge and Jury . |
| 12 | It smelled like a parrot too . |
| 13 | Leave the whiskey in oak too long and it tastes like a sack of splinters , but if the ageing is done correctly , it makes the spirit mellow and vanillin-sweet . |
| 14 | Airborne , it flies like a dream — once mastery of pitch and rudder trims has been achieved . |
| 15 | It cracked like a beechwood fire . |
| 16 | It moved like a spider , and looked like — well , it looked like a spider . |
| 17 | She felt it swell like a balloon inflated by a pressure pump . |
| 18 | ‘ Will it attack like the rest ? ’ |
| 19 | I like him with lipstick on , it looks like a lady it does , does n't it ? |
| 20 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 21 | It looks like a theatre with a balcony and circle . |
| 22 | make laughing , a derogatory terming degenerate or C , a penis that 's so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles ? |
| 23 | No C , a penis so shrunken it looks like a pair of testicles , they 'll be killing themselves wo n't they ? |
| 24 | Yeah it looks like a satellite dish , it 's only a yard in diameter . |
| 25 | Only now it looks like a fraction . |
| 26 | It looks like a road sweeper , but the only dirt the operators of this machine are interested in is buried several meters underground . |
| 27 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
| 28 | Being a tall plant with ribbon-like leaves , it looks like a Vallisneria . |
| 29 | ITN would be unable to overcome the loss of Sir Alastair Burnet , he told TV Times — ‘ Without him it looks like a scratch team . ’ |
| 30 | It looks like a bunker . |