Example sentences of "only [vb -s] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It not only looks like political bribery — it probably is . |
| 2 | ‘ He not only looks like me , he feels like mine . |
| 3 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 4 | It only sounds like it . ’ |
| 5 | I suppose Mum should know , as she 's always saying it only seems like yesterday that she was young . |
| 6 | Another mother only feels like a brute for hours afterwards ; and another child is made furiously resentful by this indignity . |
| 7 | One of the big disadvantages of crewing a cutter is that much of our revenue work has to be done after a long hard day 's passage between ports when often one only feels like flopping down on one 's bunk . |