Example sentences of "[coord] behave like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | you 're defying authority or behaving like a grown up or |
| 2 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 3 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 4 | He kept it , he told himself , to give back to her when she was kind and behaved like a proper wire . |
| 5 | But Modigliani broke all the taboos and behaved like a modern-day King David . |
| 6 | At the age of 30 , she still looked and behaved like a teenager . |
| 7 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 8 | He usually held his drink well , and behaved like a gentleman even when he did have one too many . |
| 9 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 10 | And he had looked and behaved like a wild Indian , Carew thought with a feeling of wonder . |
| 11 | The president is finely educated and is capable of talking like a professor and behaving like a despot . |
| 12 | When the molar mass is too low to produce sufficient entanglement , the material will flow more readily and behave like a viscous liquid . |
| 13 | Together with recruits to all the other Navy branches you will undergo seven weeks basic training which will teach you how to look , think and behave like a member of the Royal Navy . |
| 14 | The body looks and behaves like a pretty impressive agent in its own right . |
| 15 | This is why — it is just another way of expressing the message of earlier chapters — the bee colony looks and behaves like a truly integrated single vehicle . |
| 16 | With the daggerboard retracted. the board can be steered solely by weight movements and behaves like a surfboard , water-ski or skateboard , in that if you weight one side of the board it will turn in that direction . |
| 17 | Montepulciano not only looks but behaves like a stage set , patronising barbers ' shops and swirly baroque cafe ; its hours are numbered by a forbidding clock-tower Pulcinella ; it goes to church , outside the walls , in the most theatrical building of all . |
| 18 | The vector product a ∘ b is also a tensor of second rank but behaves like a vector ( sometimes called a pseudo-vector ) because it has only three non-vanishing components . |