Example sentences of "with [noun] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 2 | The maggot-bearing stapelia from southern Africa not only reeks dreadfully of carrion but reinforces its appeal to flies by producing flowers with wrinkled brown petals covered with hairs that look like the decaying skin of a dead animal . |
| 3 | After that she saw men making sand moulds , first by hand , and then with machines that looked like giant waffle-irons . |
| 4 | Be especially careful with lights that look like toys , as small children may try to play with them . |
| 5 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 6 | He jerked his body away from hers and stood , dragging his jeans back up with hands that shook like leaves in a hurricane . |
| 7 | There was a shallow bowl with handles that looked like twisted ropes and a clever glaze which was sometimes green , sometimes silver . |