Example sentences of "it sound " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of ‘ but ’ where common sense demands ‘ and ’ is symptomatic of a general malaise : the scriptwriters do n't think about the meaning of what they 've written , they just want it to sound pretty . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound like that . ’ |
| 3 | It 's easy to play — fat , but not too fat — and the question now is just getting it to sound exactly right . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has . |
| 6 | Sorry , I did n't mean it to sound that way . |
| 7 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want it to sound like Jayne 's mundane . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't mean it to sound that way , ’ Ruth huffed . |
| 11 | I did n't mean it to sound like that — that I 'd stopped loving you and was falling again . ’ |
| 12 | He hated definitions of apostolic succession which made it sound as though a lot of laying on of hands from century to century was a bit of magic by which God preserves his Church . |
| 13 | I hate talking about it because I hate making it sound as if someone is to blame but I just ca n't stand people who manipulate other people . |
| 14 | Francesca made it sound like someone who came to clean the telephone . |
| 15 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 16 | Mark , the earliest Gospel , makes it sound as if Jesus does not allow divorce under any circumstance ; but Matthew modifies it to allow that some circumstances may make remarriage legitimate . |
| 17 | ‘ Well for one thing , does it sound likely to you that he 'd make up something so complicated ? ’ |
| 18 | He made it sound as though the reason was obvious . |
| 19 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 20 | I had decided against Ecuador : people I had spoken to made it sound cosy , like Switzerland , and there was no easy way from it to Brazil . |
| 21 | Does it sound trivial ? |
| 22 | Do n't keep using expressions such as ‘ You know ’ , ‘ Like ’ , ‘ Er … ’ or ‘ Um … ’ — they all make it sound as if you do n't really know what you 're talking about . |
| 23 | As a broad generalisation I 'd say Luba Edlina is darker and more probing with the music , making it sound more serious and perhaps less mercurial than usual . |
| 24 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 25 | ‘ Friends ! ’ he 'd echoed , his soft Scottish burr making it sound almost mournful , and Harriet had experienced a moment 's sharp guilt . |
| 26 | Does it sound like Mrs Thatcher ? |
| 27 | ‘ You make it sound like a war , ’ she said . |
| 28 | ‘ Make it sound interesting if we talk occasionally . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | he made it sound as if this was a perfectly sound reason for his dangerous and criminal behaviour . |