Example sentences of "[noun] so that [pron] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 2 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 3 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |
| 4 | There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new . |
| 5 | When the moon came up , a full moon that illuminated the wet stony surface of the Waste so that it shone like a polished shield , they were able to go more quickly amongst the dappled and striped shadows of the trees . |
| 6 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 7 | Using a brush and diluted green and blue food colouring , paint the quarter globe of white on the cake drum so that it looks like Earth . |
| 8 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 9 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 10 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 11 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 12 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 13 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |