Example sentences of "it [vb -s] like the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And you know , the surface is not all i , you look out on the sea , and it looks like the proverbial mill pond , it 's calm , it 's barely a ripple of water but it 's not still . |
| 32 | same hat , so it looks like the same woman so he says , oh my God ! |
| 33 | It looks like the Army and Navy have been going for hundreds of years , Army and Navy Stores |
| 34 | It concentrates the will to God who transcends all particularity and it acts like the kind of short prayer that the Cloud-author recommends : " take bot a litil worde of o silable ; for so it is betir of two , for euer schorter it is , the betir it spirite … is worde schal be ridest on pees or on werre " . |
| 35 | It tones them , it gets like the Miss 's got a good figure . |
| 36 | Fossil bone is different from both in that it breaks like the solid mineral substance it has become , with straight transverse breaks across the shafts of limb bones . |
| 37 | It sounds like the Sugarhill Gang must still be in Tokyo . |
| 38 | It sounds like the most boring radio show , but the shipping forecast is vital to seagoers . |
| 39 | The cover version is grungy Bowie 's ‘ Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family ’ and it sounds like The Fall . |
| 40 | It sounds like the perfect description of the Japanese . |
| 41 | It sounds like the Velvet Underground mixed with … ’ — and she searches for the appropriate ingredient — ‘ … with Nico . ’ |
| 42 | It sounds like the next public outing for the COSE crew could be at Xhibition , June 7–11 at the San Jose Convention Center in California . |
| 43 | If it sounds like the industry is trying to argue all sides at once — it is . |
| 44 | As a divertimento this determinedly uningratiating piece has to be the least successful on the disc , but it sounds like the one most likely to survive the translation to the concert- hall . |
| 45 | ‘ It sounds like the kind of story Harry would make up , ’ he grinned . |
| 46 | Well it sounds like the procedures were quite formal , quite highly formal . |
| 47 | Aye , it sounds like the stitches right enough . |
| 48 | ‘ It sounds like the drill 's made contact , ’ Ell shouted . |
| 49 | If it sounds like the opening words of an episode of Star Trek , that 's because it 's aimed at attracting schoolchildren to the world of science . |
| 50 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 51 | It sounds like the stuff of science fiction , but soon you 'll be able to order up concert tickets while watching television using your set just like a computer . |
| 52 | It sounds like the trumps ! |
| 53 | No I do n't know whether it 's true or not I do n't know whether they 're fucking trouble is it sounds like the sort of thing I do , is we parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon . |
| 54 | Yeah , if it expires like the last one , that 's okay , just chuck it on the fire . |
| 55 | The Queen harmony vocal idea was pretty much fully developed even on your first album , and it seems like the most significant developments since have been on the part of technology catching up . |
| 56 | The Boston Globe quoted Citizens ' Chairman , President and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fish as saying , ‘ We think the worst is over in New England , and it seems like the right point in the cycle to begin our growth and expansion in the region . ’ |
| 57 | It seems like the pilot had a problem or he would n't haved effected that manoeuvere . |
| 58 | Whereas 2001 stressed bareness , emptiness — not only in space but within the spacecraft too — the Soviet spaceship Leonov is lit up like a fairground , coloured lights everywhere ; and when it enters Jupiter 's atmosphere in a dangerous manoeuvre , it burns like the best firework ever — and survives . |
| 59 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 60 | It feels like the world |