Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [pron] [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that they play none really well but this was not true of Tom who looked like becoming a child virtuoso of the flute . |
| 2 | I took my early ones in black and white , but the later ones I took in colour and er I saw to one side of Orion what looked like the Plough . |
| 3 | It had not been sighted for nearly a month apart from a brief report by a shepherd in Northumberland which sounded like a possibility but was vague — and the Zoo conceded that if he was still alive he could certainly survive like any other golden eagle in the wild . |
| 4 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 5 | And , although they were all enjoyable excursions , to Shiona they felt like a dose of purgatory . |
| 6 | To Blumenthal he seemed like a ghost . |
| 7 | To Jess it sounded like the end of the world . |