Example sentences of "[vb -s] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft solder joins like a glue , without significant interdiffusion ( or exchange ) with the metals it bonds , leaving the composition of metal and solder essentially unchanged . |
| 2 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 3 | He lives like a farmer . |
| 4 | He is also a kind of consultant that 's less well-known , he 's supposed to run the art market — lives like a tycoon , but he really loves painting . |
| 5 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 6 | Phhor stinks it stinks like a sewer |
| 7 | Stinks like a nest o' polecats down there , ’ he said . |
| 8 | There 's Tony never out of the bath and Nutty never in it , one stinks like a knocking shop the other like a nest of polecats ; I 'm beginning to wonder how they 'd look on the mantelpiece but do n't let on I said so ! |
| 9 | You ca n't even pick up every quiet guy who dresses like a skinhead and lives with blondie . |
| 10 | He dresses like a woman , the type of tryst he keeps is best hidden under the cloak of darkness . ’ |
| 11 | Looking eastward , the tall column to the memory of Captain Cook , a local lad , stands like a lighthouse on the purplish blue heights of Easby Moor . |
| 12 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 13 | Alongside , a slimy sausage glistens like a dog 's turd on the side of the plate . |
| 14 | She always looks like a sack of spuds she does |
| 15 | Bill confesses : ‘ My house usually looks like a tip . |
| 16 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 17 | It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics . |
| 18 | Fashion : Modesty blaze The new swimwear looks like a cover-up — but Nilgin Yusuf says it still provides plenty of opportunity to show off |
| 19 | At first glance , Tony wearing his off-duty clothes , a panama hat and blazer looks like a cricket umpire , but his line of work is far , far battier . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , it looks like a toss up between Dunmurry A and B in their billiards cup semi-final . |
| 21 | We find it odd , even offensive , if a boat looks like a teapot and at best quaint when a teapot looks like a boat . |
| 22 | It looks like a brand on a pig about to be priced . |
| 23 | And the bed looks like a troop of soldiers has been over it . ’ |
| 24 | He points at a young blond amateur heavyweight who looks like a fraternity kid . |
| 25 | well it looks like a factory |
| 26 | At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy . |
| 27 | He 's quite a gipsy you know , he looks like a gipsy , did you meet him ? |
| 28 | So barring a change of policy by the force , or by PC Packer , both of which seem unlikely , the battle of Chalford High Street looks like a stalemate . |
| 29 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 30 | So that looks like a function of a function . |