Example sentences of "can [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He really can behave like a monster . ’ |
| 2 | At its best , singing can feel like a river of light flowing through a firm yet flexible channel . |
| 3 | With all that , a player 's bag can feel like a ton after a few bogeys ! |
| 4 | I can feel like a sort of gritting , |
| 5 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 6 | The process of psychology can become like a drug with the victim as addicted to their own helpless indulgence as the therapist is to the emotional charge that they get . |
| 7 | So perhaps I can sound like a mouthpiece for Terence , which I definitely am not . |
| 8 | It does n't need to be strong wind to ruin the sound on a shot , the lightest of breezes can sound like a Force 8 gale in spite of the foam wind-shield with which the microphone is no doubt adorned . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , try to ensure that the flowers do not end up arranged in straight lines , as this can look like a stripe in the design . |
| 10 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 11 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
| 12 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 13 | All too often large advances can seem like a ticket to stardom . |
| 14 | Of course the daft names of so many of his pieces feed the myth as do his occasional forays into what can seem like a kind of proto-minimalism . |
| 15 | Fertility treatment can seem like a lifeline to childless couples who desperately want a baby . |
| 16 | Then he can play like a dream , electrifying Anfield with that direct , no-nonsense running style which strikes fear into defenders . |
| 17 | Can blink like a face — everything in it an eye . |