Example sentences of "it [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 2 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 3 | It got like an auction . |
| 4 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 5 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 6 | It points like a finger to heaven and like a magnet it attracts strangers passing by to come closer and investigate its history . |
| 7 | It hisses like a snake , growls like a carnivore and snaps out at its tormenter . |
| 8 | It goes like this . … ’ |
| 9 | It goes like this : we could easily train a parrot to respond to a certain signal with the words ‘ Going to the bank ’ . |
| 10 | It goes like this : |
| 11 | And it goes like this . |
| 12 | It goes like this . |
| 13 | It is n't a strong argument , but , for what it is worth , it goes like this . |
| 14 | It goes like this : when the IMF devises an adjustment package — as it has done in over 50 countries — social service budgets are cut to the bone . |
| 15 | It goes like this : back in 1983 local people decided they were fed up with repeated Indonesian Government promises that the village would soon be connected to the national electricity grid . |
| 16 | ‘ It means The Touch , ’ said McInnes , ‘ and it goes like this . ’ |
| 17 | In its art-world application it goes like this : women artists ( like men ) are sustained by the romantic fallacy — positively Pharaonic in its vision of the after-life — that present neglect could well be followed by posthumous frame . |
| 18 | It goes like rubber . |
| 19 | Right and it goes like these great funnels spread it Now as it goes down it gets caught down . |
| 20 | it goes like that right |
| 21 | and then it goes like that on each side , what does that mean ? |
| 22 | Nearly , you were in nearly alright , I 'll play it for you up to there ready it goes like this one , two , three , four , one , two , three , four , and this is this bit , one , two , three , four , one , two , three , four |
| 23 | It goes like this |
| 24 | They make the money now and it goes like flipping water . |
| 25 | It goes like this and then it 'll cloud over and rain . |
| 26 | Put it down like that , it goes like that . |
| 27 | . got a couple of Oak tree 's , there in the corner you 've got , cos our fence you 've got that , my house is there right , road down like that and you 've got a fencing , it goes like that and with got trees all around it . |
| 28 | So it goes like that |
| 29 | oh , well it goes like that |
| 30 | And it it goes like this that the economy of North Yorkshire generally and of some of its districts in particular has reached the point where it is not possible from internally generated growth to provide er the jobs that the residents . |