Example sentences of "it [verb] like one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It looks like one hell of a mess , Paul . ’ |
| 2 | In many ways it looks like one big cytochrome oxidase blob ! |
| 3 | From water level as you approach through the rock garden it looks like one solid rock barrier . |
| 4 | It looks like one of Mephistco 's junior-staff training sessions . |
| 5 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 6 | character actually , mind you she does er , it looks like one of those programmes you know er , when you do n't want to be sitting in the front row , if she 's going |
| 7 | It accelerated like one of those old twentieth century water-speed record breakers and hurtled over the water ! |
| 8 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 9 | It seems like one million years BC ( Before Courtney ) |
| 10 | ‘ It seems like one dead end after another , that 's all . ’ |
| 11 | If the abbey was a marvel of man 's work , the Tor was God 's answer for in that flat land it looked like one of the high places mentioned in the bible where the ancient patriarchs went to talk to Yahweh . |
| 12 | It sounded like one of his clever ideas . |
| 13 | I can only say that it sounded like one of those across the passage from my room . ’ |
| 14 | This may be the line recommended by Victor , but on Rachel it works like one of his cigar-ends hitting paraffin . |