Example sentences of "[verb] like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he held his heart in check until the schiltrons of the pikemen were in close range , and being harrowed like arable fields by the steady volleys of arrows . |
| 2 | They 've created a civil service , and trained Arabs to work like French bureaucrats . |
| 3 | man , stinks like rotten chicken . |
| 4 | At this time of year , with the flood still some weeks off , the Nile had shrunk back into its bed , uncovering a wide strip of mud , now baked hard and dry and cracked like crazy paving . |
| 5 | … I learned afterwards that the surgeon said in the waiting room : ‘ Queens have the right to be brought to bed before their time ; they do n't count like other people . ’ |
| 6 | The artist 's ‘ intimacy ’ with a ‘ handful ’ ( the possessive act of holding in one 's palm ) of ‘ familiar ’ sitters , fixed and therefore by implication immoveable both in the sense that they pose like good models and in the sense that they do not leave , travel or change and therefore have no narratives of their own . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 8 | The hotel we were headed for was in the centre of the city , a nightmare ride with everybody driving like crazy and blaring their horns . |
| 9 | The car must have been exceptionally sturdy for it often had me driving and pedalling like mad , with one friend perched on the bonnet and another on the back . |
| 10 | Yet so striking was the colour of the child 's hair and of that which showed beneath the flat straw hat of the woman as to appear like distorted jogging lights in the dimness . |
| 11 | I wondered whether the flak was accurate and thought of the people fifteen thousand feet above us in Wellingtons , Stirlings and Hampdens , eating chocolate and plotting their track or weaving desperately and praying like tiny panic-stricken children . |
| 12 | Against the US mainstream culture of rose-tinted kitsch ( which Milan Kundera defines as ‘ the refusal to accept that shit exists ’ ) , bands like Big Black , Flipper and the Buttholes react by devising a near-catastrophic conception of ‘ authenticity ’ . |
| 13 | Looks like new , girl . |
| 14 | The meat , which looks like dark veal , is imported by the hotel from France . |
| 15 | This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 17 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 18 | No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation , but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism . |
| 19 | Looks like pure hot milk . |
| 20 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 21 | He looks like lost property now . |
| 22 | He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain . |
| 23 | Coriander looks like flat leaf parsley , but when bought in bunches usually has some of the root attached . |
| 24 | It not only looks like political bribery — it probably is . |
| 25 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 26 | A gentle rhythm pulses along it , the material of which it is constructed looks like membrane-covered cartilage ( and has a similar consistency ) , and slender blood vessels can be seen under the lining of membrane . |
| 27 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 28 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 29 | Now the peasants are bent over what looks like bare earth |
| 30 | Above : Inspired by the traditional floors of country houses across Europe , the Charlecote Rosewood design from Amtico looks like real parquet , and will add a touch of class to a study or living room , but will not cost the earth |