Example sentences of "it [vb infin] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ? |
| 2 | You ca n't even separate on the ‘ map ’ screens , so you 're doomed to wander around together — does this sound like serious roleplaying , or does it sound like Golden Axe ? |
| 3 | Does it sound like this to you ? |
| 4 | He made it sound like bad TV entertainment . |
| 5 | It made it look like golden silk , and she had the urge to run her hands over it to find out . |
| 6 | However the wily old man gets his way , surreptitiously sabotaging the TARDIS to make it look like mechanical failure , and suggesting the city as the only source of repair . |
| 7 | ‘ Make it look like that , ’ they would say , pointing to one of his sample pages , and that is what it would look like . |
| 8 | Leave my handbag alone but you see when it was in the window Jane I thought it looked a bit too light , but I think what makes it look like that is they 've got the light shining |
| 9 | The sky was huge , a pale , bright , cloudless blue , and the white surface of the road ahead rippled in the heat mirages that made it look like little waves . |
| 10 | Putrefaction had set in around the nose and mouth , the skin felt cold and soggy as Corbett gently turned the head to look at the fatal weal round the neck , a broad , purple black gash with little round indentations which made it look like some ghostly parody of a necklace . |
| 11 | So it 's making it look like inverse proportion and the first thought is , Oh it l er er oh . |
| 12 | ‘ How long will it run like that before it starts rattling again ? ’ |
| 13 | I said it does n't it work like that Lee ! |
| 14 | Most specialists advise sizing the CHP unit to cope with regular peak demand , make it work like crazy as Murrell suggests , and use current from the grid when demand outstrips the generator 's capacity . |
| 15 | ‘ You know I 'd never have let it happen like that , ’ Aunt Sarah said presently . |
| 16 | But I ca n't let it happen like that , and whether they get him or not — and I doubt they will — I have to be there . |
| 17 | People never used to , years ago , why did it happen like that now ? |
| 18 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 19 | Owen , equally alarmed , was content to let it rest like that while he tried to see a way through the likely complications . |
| 20 | I only wish the box 's artwork did n't make it seem like such a hoot . |
| 21 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 22 | If you put a penny in , it was like that Michael , whereas a penny could it come like that and held it . |
| 23 | ‘ It must be so frustrating , seeing it decay like this , ’ she sighed . |