Example sentences of "with [pron] [vb past] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This table was covered with what looked like a toy village , or rather a toy landscape for there were rivers and hillsides and boundaries and hundreds and hundreds of minute patches of green in every geometrical shape and minute model manor houses and chateaux and farms . |
| 2 | He wore a baggy tracksuit with what looked like a jam stain down the front and egg yolk all down the sleeve . |
| 3 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 4 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 5 | At one stage he was an angry young man with what seemed like a chip on his shoulder , aggravating everyone from referees to opponents . |
| 6 | There she was , imprisoned in that isolated house on the cliffs near Penzance with what seemed like a martinet of a mother . ’ |
| 7 | You ca n't go wrong with anything shaped like a noodle . |