Example sentences of "sound like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | THEIR small engines sound like a squadron of amplified hornets and the planes are built from nothing more substantial than treated paper stretched over balsa wood . |
| 32 | ‘ Why , you sound like a salesman ! ’ |
| 33 | You sound like a character out of Jane Austen . ’ |
| 34 | I sound like a plaster saint . |
| 35 | ( God I sound like a middle-manager ! ) |
| 36 | If Karen 's shopping chores sound like a nightmare , her job has its perks . |
| 37 | ‘ You sound like a German . |
| 38 | ‘ You sound like a woman at last , ’ he said softly . |
| 39 | Maybe it 's because they sound like a goat rammed down a foghorn . |
| 40 | ‘ There are all sorts of people trying to rob and cheat you , but you sound like a doctor , and you , young lady , could never get away with a crime . |
| 41 | ‘ You sound like a throwback to the days of Queen Victoria . ’ |
| 42 | You sound like a monkey . |
| 43 | In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law . |
| 44 | Probably listening to it , it probably sound like a drill |
| 45 | We think we sound like a cross between INXS and Led Zeppelin and everybody else thinks we sound like f—ing Bogshed . |
| 46 | I sound like the cheese advert do n't I ? |
| 47 | You sound like the dog . |
| 48 | The Farm are a bunch of Scally wankers who sound like the sort of people who should be walking round town with bull terriers . |
| 49 | ‘ You sound like an expert . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ You sound like an estate agent , ’ said Tess . |
| 51 | Fired off in rapid succession questions merely sound like an inquisition with the result that you will be creating anxiety , not ideas . |
| 52 | Still saying 12345 , make it sound like a question — an invitation — a refusal ; say it to express anger — sorrow — joy — simply by changing tone and inflection of the voice . |
| 53 | ’ This does not sound like a school exercise : more like a piece of self-imposed apprenticeship . |
| 54 | Perhaps that does n't sound like a patrol tent |
| 55 | No , it does n't sound like a patrol tent |
| 56 | Dawson made it sound like a pincer-movement . |
| 57 | He made it sound like a fortune , this extra $1.25 , it was only because he liked Jed so much , he did n't know what had come over him , maybe he had a fever , an extra $1.25 , it was madness . |
| 58 | It may sound like a case of split personalities but Louise G Torsney FHCIMA and Louise G Pollard FHCIMA is one and the same person . |
| 59 | Does that sound like a blackmailer ? ’ |
| 60 | Or does that sound like a firm of country solicitors ? |