Example sentences of "that [vb base] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like dogs that sit like these I must admit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | Urgh they 're the ones that smell like bad fish ! |
| 5 | Then he turned to his wife and addressed her in words that cut like a knife . |
| 6 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 7 | The subsequent discovery of the endorphins and encephalins , hormones in the brain that act like morphine and so act as a natural analgesic , and their implication in the action of acupuncture , provided further theoretical explanation for its efficacy . |
| 8 | He prefers stories about animals that act like human beings . |
| 9 | In the woods lurk beasts that walk like men . |
| 10 | Your feet are a mystery in shoes that look like velvet , look like suede , fit you and enhance you and tantalise my warm mouth with desire every time you move your toes . |
| 11 | Also popular for travelling are quilted , overblown pseudo-ski jackets in pink or blue that look like duvets rampant . |
| 12 | Priestley 's famous observations focused upon the differences between the England of ‘ cathedrals and minsters ’ , industrial England , and the new post-war England of ‘ arterial and bypass roads , of filling stations and factories that look like exhibition buildings . ’ |
| 13 | But look out for those exquisite confections that look like liquorice allsorts . |
| 14 | What chance have we lowland city folk got when we 're confronted with maps covered in names that look like anagrams ? |
| 15 | Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power . |
| 16 | After years of striving to produce computer graphics that look like human drawn animations or live photography , the bosses in the film and TV business now say they want computer graphics to look more like graphics . |
| 17 | The most impressive of the rhinos is the great Indian rhinoceros , with its tough skin thrown into heavy folds that look like curved , welded sections of sheet-metal . |
| 18 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 19 | There are stick insects that look like twigs , butterflies that resemble bird droppings , seahorses that appear to be pieces of floating seaweed , moths that look like bark and frogs that seem to be nothing more than leaf litter on the forest floor . |
| 20 | TIP : Fish pox is a viral nuisance that covers your Koi ( usually the most expensive ones , it seems ) with unsightly whitish-pink blobs that look like melted candle wax . |
| 21 | The variety of colours and textures of paper available is astonishing , and there are even some that look like lace . |
| 22 | It 's called Polypterus and it 's about 12″ long , blue grey in colour with a white underside and pectorals that look like table tennis bats . |
| 23 | Losses that look like totalling £6 billion in the years 1988–91 have ruined many names — the individuals who provide the market 's capital on the basis of unlimited liability . |
| 24 | In future when I land at anything other than properly documented airfields I will ask the question : Are there any other runways or strips that look like runways in the vicinity that could be mistaken for the active runway ? |
| 25 | The maggot-bearing stapelia from southern Africa not only reeks dreadfully of carrion but reinforces its appeal to flies by producing flowers with wrinkled brown petals covered with hairs that look like the decaying skin of a dead animal . |
| 26 | The rivers of Europe and America contain animals that look like the lancelet , though they are somewhat larger , up to 20 centimetres long . |
| 27 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 28 | Those two there that look like twins half an inch apart : they may in fact be nauseatingly sundered by a long light-time of depth , united only by the angle of our point of view . |
| 29 | Sometimes moths have thick antennae that look like feathers . |
| 30 | Be especially careful with lights that look like toys , as small children may try to play with them . |