Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hushed , sleeping stillness had long since settled like a heavy blanket over the place , but Lissa stirred quietly in the depths of the armchair . |
| 2 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 3 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 4 | I 've not only never felt like this before , I never imagined it possible . |
| 5 | The carpet gets turned round , your favourite chair feels all wrong , and yet it only takes you an hour or two to wonder why it was obviously never done like this before . |
| 6 | He had never worked hard or regularly , and now he only occasionally felt like working . |
| 7 | When we discover that e-mail does not necessarily work like that , we are temporarily at a loss as to what to do about it . |
| 8 | But it 's not enough to play like that once every ten weeks . ’ |
| 9 | Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ . |
| 10 | The climax to this ludicrous campaign from the Dark Ages came in 1953 with the tour of Europe by McCarthy 's two young assistants , Mr Cohn and Mr Schine , who not only sounded like a bad vaudeville act but performed like one . |
| 11 | But , unlike fashion or kinship systems , literature is not only organized like language ; it is actually made of language . |
| 12 | It not only looks like political bribery — it probably is . |
| 13 | ‘ He not only looks like me , he feels like mine . |
| 14 | I just normally buy like water bombs , things like that . |
| 15 | The only reason affluent Victorians did not physically explode like Henry VIII ( after he was dead , naturally ) was their habit of heaping the dinner table with exotic greenery . |
| 16 | Conversely , those not easily located like part-time farmers on Flotta in Orkney were dependent on a wife or neighbour able to deal with such emergencies . |
| 17 | Just just looks like it to you . |
| 18 | To you these might not always seem like severe difficulties , but for young people problems like these can loom large . |
| 19 | It does not always work like that , for they can lead to real difficulties in study , and sometimes to pastoral problems . |
| 20 | Other areas such as the shop , supermarket or hairdressers are often set up and , if not permanently established like the Home Corner , are used and replaced , to return again months later and be enjoyed with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 21 | I think all signature models should carry a warning that the potential purchaser will not automatically sound like the player the guitar has been designed to serve . |
| 22 | It seemed a strange request , and although I did not really feel like accepting , he politely insisted . |
| 23 | From the commentary it sounded as though Leeds did not really look like getting a 2nd equaliser . |
| 24 | For a commercial firm of solicitors , expertise in Community law does not simply grow like Topsy . |
| 25 | Even when we were not even looking like fouling them he was giving free kicks against us . |
| 26 | Miller , in short , does not even look like me . |
| 27 | and im impose these class ideas on them , they 're not immediately thinking like this , you can say the landlord can be treated as a class , they 're all the same and you |
| 28 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 29 | Two swing eighth notes resemble this triplet figure : *** Sometimes you might see this at the beginning of a chart : ***** In some texts , you might find the rhythm written as *** but it 's not actually played like that . |
| 30 | Women do not actually sound like children , and men sound even less like Great Danes — except in the light of a culturally-mediated analogy that already trades on sexism . |