Example sentences of "that sounds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , she tells me that she is going to throw Shaun out because Shaun is boring , er , Don put her , Shaun she has no respect for she says because he has n't got a job , he wo n't get a job , he wo n't work , and she said to Lee what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back , once they were properly divorced take Pete back just as a lover and I said that sounds to me to be a very good idea , I said then your not at his mercy because anybody who 's at Pete 's mercy will suffer , his got a very nasty streak , his got a nasty snide way of putting things . |
| 2 | Is he , perhaps , a greater poet and a great operatic tenor who merely sings pretentious bollocks in a voice that sounds as if he 's drowning in his own snot as a sort of joke ? |
| 3 | it has , about eight week 's , must be er that sounds as if the wash has finished , you fancy any thing ? |
| 4 | So that sounds as if you favour the idea of selling off shares . |
| 5 | ‘ Semitic hieroglyphs ’ found in Peruvian jungle city Orthodox archaeologists are sceptical about a claim that sounds like a Hollywood dream . |
| 6 | ‘ From where I 'm lying that sounds like another woman saying , it 's me or her or else . ’ |
| 7 | It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp . |
| 8 | In the early scenes she sometimes seems less like a human than a terrified wild animal , and she is in extraordinary form in her first public apppearance at Mrs Higgins 's tea party , moving with the stiffness of an automaton and speaking in a voice that sounds like a Martian after a course at the Berlitz . |
| 9 | There is something in his voice that sounds like regret ; he likes to be inside the minds of craftsmen of 400 years ago , making the furniture , building the house . |
| 10 | 1 Corinthians 13:4–8a gives a definition of love that sounds like a description of consideration and integrity personified . |
| 11 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 12 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |
| 13 | Sadly not , as I had thought , a record by King Beer called ‘ Animals That Swim ’ , ‘ King Beer ’ is a slow sort of talking ballad that sounds like a posh Jonathan Richman having a muse and a chorus that arrives very late in the song indeed . |
| 14 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's one track that sounds like it was written by someone much older than me , someone with experience who 's married with three kids . ’ |
| 16 | And avoid anything that sounds like fighting — and anyone who looks dead . |
| 17 | Oh I did n't know that actually but er fine yes I mean er that sounds like a very good idea . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's one track that sounds like it was written by someone much older than me , someone with experience who 's married with three kids . ’ |
| 19 | well to be quite honest I mean th that sounds like good er justification as far as I 'm concerned for moving a moving her work to somebody else or moving her on to somebody else |
| 20 | and , and you , you have to say another word that sounds like it . |
| 21 | Mine do n't want to come at all , my dad said good god that sounds like a waste of time . |