Example sentences of "[adv] like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's kinda like jumping your body around the bike and countersteering — you go right if you flick the bars left , and you go left if you flick the bars right . ’ |
| 2 | Releasing the emotional threads is somewhat like cutting the umbilical cord : if it is done too soon , both parties risk severe injury through loss of blood , whereas if it is left too long , it becomes an obscenity , a viscous , unnatural-looking projection of the human body . |
| 3 | This is somewhat like making the target broader so that it becomes easier to hit . |
| 4 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 5 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 6 | But it sounded too much like preaching , so he kept his mouth shut . |
| 7 | Building up relationships was very much like collecting little islands — you jumped from one to another to another to another — and if you were lucky you eventually had a network . |
| 8 | In some ways , I suppose buying a new detector is much like buying a new car . |
| 9 | Which is politically much like trying to run your old car without petrol . ’ |
| 10 | It was too much like facing darkness . |
| 11 | To explore Regency England in her company is much like taking Rural Rides with Cobbett a decade later , not least because they both detect in the details of domestic building and furnishing indications of much more comprehensive change . |
| 12 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
| 13 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't feel much like juggling with the scheduling this morning . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I DO N'T feel much like going to Pack Meeting tonight , ’ said Penny sadly . |
| 16 | Corbett related that he felt much like committing suicide himself at this point . |
| 17 | Goddard arrived in place of Yallop for the final 11 minutes but Ipswich never looked much like pulling a goal back until injury time when Williams fired narrowly wide . |
| 18 | The effect was very much like putting an egg in an open electric food mixer . |
| 19 | " Too much like fraternising with the enemy ? " |
| 20 | ‘ I did n't cross them out — that would have been too much like defacing the book , ’ he says . |
| 21 | With that cough he will be easy to track down and probably wo n't feel much like running away . ’ |
| 22 | With many of the creative accounting techniques implemented by councils in the 1980s being increasingly subject to central control , in the longer term public-sector capital investment looks very much like becoming a minority interest . |
| 23 | She doubted then that he had felt very much like climbing trees or swimming in the river for some long while after he had lost his parents . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't bear it , that tenderness that came across so like loving . |
| 25 | In fact Edward had never felt less like laughing . |
| 26 | ’ The note of pure panic in the Director 's voice was almost comical ; yet Li Yuan had never felt less like laughing . |
| 27 | It really is exactly like using the Shift key . |
| 28 | Futures trading is exactly like betting with a bookmaker ( in this case the clearing house ) on the price of the underlying good , with daily clearing of bets . |
| 29 | It was exactly like standing in a cauldron of lukewarm soup and feeling it inch its way up your body . |
| 30 | Why does contemplating the end of an era feel so painfully like waving a loved one off to war ? |