Example sentences of "that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 2 | At the last moment , when the barred window was already darkened , and the echoes from the outer ward grown scattered and few , Harry suffered an agony of fear that after all this would be like other nights , that Isambard would come with his taunting smile and his small , shrewd ironies that stabbed like knives ; but instead came young Thomas Blount , true to his word , with his tilted nose and his provocative swagger , and flung open the door of the room with a flourish . |
| 3 | And the one that goes like this . |
| 4 | Raking the comb through cropped curls that gleamed like polished mahogany , Polly tried to stifle her doubts and the nagging feeling that somehow she should have known there would be strings attached to Clive 's offer no matter how much he protested otherwise . |
| 5 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 6 | It was in an adult education college where the long corridors were lined with notice-boards and lists that fluttered like dead leaves as he walked past . |
| 7 | But it is the memory that sits like a kernel at the heart of it all . |
| 8 | Then she thought of the blackberrying and the melon , of the feathered hens that laid eggs , and of the church eagle of glinting metal that glowed like gold . |
| 9 | Profit that glowed like beads in a smoked-glass display . |
| 10 | The walls were covered with a riot of colourful designs , patterns that swirled like those on a headster-time blouson . |
| 11 | I like dogs that sit like these I must admit . |
| 12 | The walls of Belgo are embossed with the names of Rabelaisian fish that read like insults : ‘ Coldeel , Begginback , Cocklicrane , Assface . ’ |
| 13 | And that leaves out Path statements that read like a road map of your hard disk . |
| 14 | On the way back , she filled a pouch in the corner of her shawl with the edible weeds that grow like tongues of spinach among the crops . |
| 15 | Fascinated by the white pines that grow like weeds round Concord , on one memorable occasion he goes after their cones , which grow on their topmost branches : |
| 16 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 17 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 18 | Urgh they 're the ones that smell like bad fish ! |
| 19 | I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's obvious that bands like The Sisters Of Mercy and Fields Of The Nephilim have taken various things from The Birthday Party . |
| 21 | When you were down there , amongst flaked paint and washing that zigzagged like bunting , when you walked between palm trees and ramshackle fruit stalls , dodging ancient buses and rattle-trap motorbikes , it all seemed haphazard . |
| 22 | As his fingers casually brushed her neck Laura froze , her nails biting into the palms of her hands at the sudden , shuddering quiver that zigzagged like lightning through her tired body . |
| 23 | She had given him some newspaper torn into squares and a glass of dark-brown liquid that tasted like spanish water . |
| 24 | ‘ Some sort of mayonnaise spread that tasted like chopped up cardboard with bits in it . |
| 25 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |
| 26 | The stucco on the houses that rose like cliffs of grey stone in the rue de Sèvres was enough to depress me in itself , blotched as it was with building acne , let alone the drains blocked with refuse and the greasy pipes round which foaming suds slept fitfully . |
| 27 | Five feet four or five at the most , looking almost as round as he was high , with a balding pate that rose like a monk 's tonsure through an unruly and still retreating fringe . |
| 28 | silence that rose like walls around her . |
| 29 | There are no character notes of any kind in the text , which is written as a complex rhyming scheme that looks like prose at first glance . |
| 30 | ‘ A delightful young lady that looks like a boy . |