Example sentences of "have [verb] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost . |
| 2 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 3 | The new Britain may have looked like a waste land by 1945 , or at least a bomb site , especially in its inner cities . |
| 4 | Travelling by bus at night in winter could be a chilling experience , so my mother made me anklets from the fur cuffs of an old coat ; these stayed on by means of snap fasteners , and I must have looked like a poodle , but they provided considerable comfort . |
| 5 | It must have looked like an inkwell . |
| 6 | To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer . |
| 7 | You do n't have to talk like a baby ! |
| 8 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 9 | The Telegraph commented : ‘ As Sir Alf [ pictured ] watched his team begin their first game together since last November he must have felt like a yachtsman who takes the winter covers off his boat , eases it into the water and finds it has sprung leaks fore , aft and midships . ’ |
| 10 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 11 | If he acknowledged his title more openly he might have to behave like a count , instead of roaring around like a reckless lunatic causing accidents in his speedboat … |
| 12 | In this case it is still difficult to appreciate the worth of the savings plan because we do n't think in 1900 prices when the sum of £1010 ( the amount gained in interest ) would have seemed like a fortune ! |
| 13 | They were sometimes accompanied by Wordsworth 's daughter Dora , who to some extent replaced Dorothy after her illness ; at times this must have seemed like a re-enactment of the earlier years , when Dorothy , William and Coleridge were inseparable . |
| 14 | If that was the Big Time , it would n't have impressed them too much — the journey would have seemed like an eternity . |
| 15 | Also , at the end of it all you will have to eat like a bird in order to avoid putting back all the fat you lost . |
| 16 | You must have worked like a black . " |
| 17 | Cati , my little wild lion cub , you 'll have to act like a woman soon . |
| 18 | If the balls had been fired higher still the sound would have rumbled like a cask being rolled over floorboards . |