Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spike said that it looked like Hunters had attacked the craft . |
| 2 | It 's just good that it looks like we 're winning . |
| 3 | I know you enjoy your own company and that 's a good thing 'cause it looks like it 's the only kind you 'll ever get . |
| 4 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
| 5 | Someone even stopped Carl in the street the other day and congratulated him on how good the album is , so it looks like the world 's finally catching up with us . ’ |
| 6 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 7 | I step it up to the bar just so it looks like I 've got some goal in life . |
| 8 | ‘ So it looks like it 's all solved already . |
| 9 | Someone even stopped Carl in the street the other day and congratulated him on how good the album is , so it looks like the world 's finally catching up with us . ’ |
| 10 | Okay , they also said that KELLY would be playing vs MAN CITY , so it looks like Sterland is nt quite ready . |
| 11 | By now , winners or losers , the contestants will be sleeping or coping with their own adrenalin hangover in their own way , and it feels like my chicks have left the nest . |
| 12 | It should loosen a couple of teeth — and it feels like I have one stuck in the middle of my forehead . |
| 13 | Anyway , I just held her , and it felt like she 'd broken , could n't take any more , then she kissed me . |
| 14 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 15 | And it looked like he was of bureaucracy , but what he was trying to perfectly valid point , that he could n't actually make the final decision . |
| 16 | ‘ And it sounds like they 're coming along now , ’ Sergeant said . |
| 17 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 18 | And it feel like it 's telling us we 're not , we 're not doing anything right . |
| 19 | ‘ And it looks like we 'll be moving there , if she sticks to the asking price , so you 'd better get used to the idea . |
| 20 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 21 | And it looks like I 'm going to have to attend to that jockey girl . ’ |
| 22 | The latest Socata single — the TBM 700 turboprop capable of a 300 knot cruise with seven passengers — may be out of the range of most of us , but 78 firm orders have been received to date , and it looks like they have another winner of their hands . |
| 23 | I 'm the breadwinner and it looks like it will stay that way . |
| 24 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 25 | ‘ I saw the woman I love wrap herself round my older , smarter and wittier brother like clingfilm round a sandwich , and it looks like they 're enjoying each other the way … |
| 26 | I 'm not being facile , but we came from the sea , we 've dumped on it for years and it looks like it 's getting its own back . |
| 27 | If this argument sticks — and it looks like it might — the only innovations that will remain unprotected will be those made by the rural poor in Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
| 28 | Because to me Danny Blanchflower , we lost England 's number one , now we 've lost Ireland 's number one , and it looks like we could even lose John , before long , of a similar type of er illness . |
| 29 | And it looks like they 've got a kid with them . ’ |
| 30 | Erm , well , at the moment I 'm involved in a a big project , new benefits claims , erm , and so if the new claims system could echo which priorities in that department , erm , and it looks like it will be long drawn out eventually at the end of next year , nationwide and effectively it 's a English processing system whereby terms coming in and they 're scanned and you can see images on a screen , so there 's gon na be no calls , what my , what my role in this is , gon na be to get the branches to accept the system . |