Example sentences of "it [verb] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 2 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 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 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 5 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 6 | It hisses like a snake , growls like a carnivore and snaps out at its tormenter . |
| 7 | It goes like a , sort of like a wax crayon , where it freezes , and I put the glove back on , and you get , you get the hot aches , I mean , when the feeling starts to come back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It read like a cry for help , for support . |
| 10 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 11 | It became like a chant , a mantra for him ; Half Moon Crescent , Half-Moon-Crescent , Halfmooncrescent … |
| 12 | It became like a social visit . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It smelled like a parrot too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not a bit of it — do not know if W. J. Jakimiuk who was responsible for the Chipmunk 's lovely qualities also devised the Beaver 's agile handling , but I should not be surprised if he did , for it flies like a smaller aeroplane , with light forces and a roll-rate much better than that long high-aspect-ratio wing might suggest . |
| 18 | Airborne , it flies like a dream — once mastery of pitch and rudder trims has been achieved . |
| 19 | It cracked like a beechwood fire . |
| 20 | It moved like a spider , and looked like — well , it looked like a spider . |
| 21 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | She felt it swell like a balloon inflated by a pressure pump . |
| 23 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 25 | It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics . |
| 26 | And just because it looks like a wild boar with the striped marking or ‘ agouti ’ ( long snout , straight tail and small pointy ears ) , can it be accepted as such without a genetic test ? |
| 27 | The water level drops and then , woosh , up it all comes , first rising like a column — at this stage it looks like a vaguely blue shaggy ink cap toadstool — then blasting itself apart in a flourish of steam . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd even say it looks like a Mazda , notwithstanding Rover 214 wheel covers . |
| 30 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |