Example sentences of "[vb base] it [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 2 | Knock , knock it looks like ! |
| 3 | Wherever blame might lie as regards the situation with the South Wales constabulary at the present time , surely it would be madness to merge Gwent police force with the South Wales police force at this unfortunate time because Gwent has a very , very good record and we want it to stay like that . |
| 4 | You could put it along side that erm , if you put it stuck like that , it 'll need staking , put it on the wall on the fence . |
| 5 | No I hope it stays like this , is it gon na stay like this all day or is it only the morning ? |
| 6 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 7 | It looks demolish it looks like a derelict place , in , ah What 's , what 's that on the ? |
| 8 | I know it sounds like Hollywood , but I 've never felt so alone . |
| 9 | I know it sounds like another made-up story — ’ |
| 10 | I know it sounds like sounds like you 'd be |
| 11 | Yes , I know it looks like an inverted yacht and that the garde that the D series was avant never materialised , but a production-line car which combines such a ridiculously optimistic view of the public 's aesthetic sensibilities with so much understanding of daily long-distance driving has to have a lot going for it . |
| 12 | You know it looks like balsa wood . |
| 13 | I know it seems like madness , but it 's something I just can not help . |
| 14 | ‘ Juliet — ’ David spoke earnestly , ‘ I know it seems like a disaster to you at the moment , but look at it this way . |
| 15 | If we again discount this income at the time or get it looks like that . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose it seems like that , but it would have been silly to say no when he was prepared to come , after I 'd been so sad not to see him . |
| 17 | Using full ( 48 degrees ) flap it glides like an auto-rotating helicopter with the cowling pointed well down towards the near shore . |
| 18 | They all eat out of one big pot like pigs at a trough , and when they talk it sounds like a dog barking . |
| 19 | It had a six-inch barrel , but a solid cylinder underneath it almost as long so that from the business end it looked like an over-and-under shotgun with the lower barrel blocked off . |
| 20 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 21 | I mean it sounds like maybe it should be that way but we do n't spell it like we have the I A L or A L E. |
| 22 | I mean it sounds like a sort of — ’ |
| 23 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 24 | Most specialists advise sizing the CHP unit to cope with regular peak demand , make it work like crazy as Murrell suggests , and use current from the grid when demand outstrips the generator 's capacity . |
| 25 | Essential you make it look like an accident … ’ |
| 26 | Its colouration — light brown with dark brown/black irregular flecks and blotches , make it look like a piece of wood , hence its common name . |
| 27 | ‘ Make it look like that , ’ they would say , pointing to one of his sample pages , and that is what it would look like . |
| 28 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 29 | They make it look like a ship with waiters like pirates singing shanties into your clam chowder . |
| 30 | ‘ You make it sound like a war , ’ she said . |