Example sentences of "sound like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hate to sound like a detective , but there was a puddle outside the front gate and only one new set of tyre-marks between the Saturday night and the Sunday night . |
| 2 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 3 | ‘ My God , you 're beginning to sound like a wife . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | I do n't want to sound like a computer . |
| 7 | You 're beginning to sound like a pig . ’ |
| 8 | But here in this London hotel , detailing your UFO abduction anecdotes with a perfectly straight face , you are starting to sound like a fruitcake from Planet Drugs . |
| 9 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 10 | He was the boss , after all , but he was beginning to sound like a slave-driver . |
| 11 | Sandison had not intended this to sound like a jibe but it did . |
| 12 | She had finished when she heard his signal , a yell he had perfected to sound like a car hooting . |
| 13 | Lectures about this type of library material tend to sound like a catalogue of unfamiliar names — the ‘ catalogue aria ’ . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the paradox is that a small , cheapish amp still has to sound like a beast , whilst remaining tame and housetrained in all other respects . |
| 15 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 16 | She was starting to sound like a parrot , repeating everything he said , but she could n't seem to help herself . |
| 17 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 18 | ‘ You 're starting to sound like a refugee from a bad horror film . |
| 19 | In a Mozart Divertimento ( K 136 ) he persuaded the strings to sound like an expert chamber orchestra , no mean feat , and in last Thursday 's concert J. C. Bach 's Sinfonia in B flat ( Op 18 , No 2 ) was notable for superb oboe-playing and rhythmic elan . |
| 20 | He was an American who put flat Cockney vowel-sounds into his American accent to sound like an Englishman assuming an American accent . |
| 21 | It was beginning to sound like an inquisition . |
| 22 | Theodora had by now abandoned all attempts not to sound like an interrogator . |
| 23 | Do you have to sound like the vicar , Quigly ? |
| 24 | Yeah , but it seems to sound like the person though does n't it ? |
| 25 | The High 's guitar sound is gradually thickening up from their mod-ish debut LP , and they 're starting to sound like the Atom bloody Seed . |
| 26 | However skilful the playing , the violin tends to sound like the horn 's spinster cousin bent on shrill admonition , and the horn , lumpish and sulky . |
| 27 | If that sentiment was intended to sound like the deathbed conversion of Scrooge , I am not sure that it was entirely convincing . |
| 28 | You sound like a copper . |
| 29 | ‘ You sound like a misogynist , Dr. Briant ! ’ |
| 30 | No I just sound like a bloke . |