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Example sentences of "it [verb] like [v-ing] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It became like putting together a manic jigsaw puzzle on the grand scale : ‘ What bit will go in there ? ’
2	‘ It looks like pimping in the West End is a lucrative business .
3	Cos otherwise it looks like writing to random M Ps .
4	Pick , squeeze seeds and pulp into a container and leave , adding water if it looks like drying out .
5	And it looks like maintaining its high standing for years to come .
6	It looks like boiling up into a battle in the athletics bullring between Christie , Burrell and fellow American Dennis Mitchell , plus Namibia 's Frankie Fredericks .
7	And already it looks like stirring up fierce controversy .
8	‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer .
9	It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press .
10	But it looks like doing so only when the fishermen have emptied the seas .
11	It came like throwing paint over the car and paint up the front door and stuff like that , which really annoyed me .
12	Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying .
13	The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it .
14	There is nothing illegal in this method , to my knowledge anyway , but I avoid it because to me it seems like cheating .
15	And then he goes , he goes erm it 's , it gets erm it really gets to me when I think people are chewing around school , I do n't know what to do to stop people and I was n't chewing , yes well it looked like chewing , but I was n't chewing !
16	Cinderella mutated from rinsedella to rinse-a-leader and denser-liar , nitron became non-try , even trianon , U.V.I. kept changing into I-view-you , and synthetic fibre had long completed its various transitions from fetid cider to fist ethic neighbour and finally to thigh fetish sabre , where it looked like getting stuck for quite some time .
17	Her sisters , brothers-in-law , nephews , nieces and a couple of aunts were coming over , and it looked like turning into a noisy , boisterous family affair .
18	One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion .
19	And this month it looked like losing any semblance of true commercial independence when its two biggest shareholders , Spain 's El Pais and Italy 's La Repubblica newspaper groups , said they may be forced to increase their joint stake to 50% by investing more money in it .
20	Outside , it looked like becoming a warm , sunny day , which increased his alienation after the British autumn .
21	It felt like seeing a film happening round you .
22	It felt like abandoning all the people we had been working with , whom we had been encouraging to organize and demand their rights .
23	It felt like hauling on a rope that ran half round the world .
24	When I wiped out , it felt like going through a car-wash without a car .
25	It felt like coming home , in a way .
26	There is a er an almost consensus across the states as to what that should be erm but there are variations so there could be wild variations so that there , there is a , a scope er to determine that er each state is free to set up whatever agencies or departments , parts of the bureaucracy it feels like setting up , it 's not subject to any federal control or national standards .
27	It feels like passing through a political demonstration .
28	It feels like sleeping on a vast resounding shore
29	It feels like whoring sometimes , only I do n't do it for myself , except once or twice to save my life . ’
30	Just to make sure that erm just to make sure that we do n't think it 's just spinning wherever it feels like spinning , it 's spinning on its axis is n't it .