Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | He prefers stories about animals that act like human beings . |
| 2 | The rivers of Europe and America contain animals that look like the lancelet , though they are somewhat larger , up to 20 centimetres long . |
| 3 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her breasts seemed to strain towards him , begging for his touch , and there was a wetness between her thighs that burned like fire . |
| 7 | ‘ You argue well , ’ agreed Hotspur , watching him keenly , and with a sudden remote spark in his eyes that looked like involuntary laughter . |
| 8 | He stopped abruptly , glaring down at her from eyes that looked like dark chasms . |
| 9 | Something as tall as a steeple , in a trailing black dress , fair hair cascading ; a face turned , looking down at Ruth , with long mocking green eyes that glimmered like the sea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you any notion , ’ he said ponderously , ‘ of the value of a mind that works like that ? ’ |
| 12 | Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan . |
| 13 | I stood up with knees that felt like buckling and tried to open the door into the dock ; and it was as immovable from outside as from in . |
| 14 | ‘ If someone comes out with a car that looks like ours , that has the same windscreen , a roll bar in the same position and so on , that did not happen by accident . |
| 15 | Not even a control tower , just a grass runway , with a wind-sock at one end , three old pre-war hangars and several huts that looked like a Luftwaffe addition . |
| 16 | And was again in the scrub behind the round thatched huts that blazed like torches . |
| 17 | Almost as frightening was the bellow of Buddie 's voice when it grew huge and powerful with anger , and the shouted words that struck like blows to make Frankie flinch and tremble . |
| 18 | Then he turned to his wife and addressed her in words that cut like a knife . |
| 19 | Now , that loving counted for nothing and all the sweet promises they had made were empty words that floated like echoes in a great grey void . |
| 20 | For example , Richter makes paintings of photographs , makes prints of photographs of his paintings , and paints abstract pictures that look like commercial colour charts . |
| 21 | The ocean tilted up to meet him , its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations , fallen stars . |
| 22 | We would expect horses to be more comfortable with a horse that looked like itself because it would also be likely to look like its mother . |
| 23 | I mean we come out with erm an equation that look like so expected price and T is a function right it 's the sum of gamma into one minus gamma into J into P T minus one minus J and J goes to infinity . |
| 24 | The haul up the corrie takes you to the first peak , Tom na Gruagaich , from where you must drop down and follow the ridge to the summit of Beinn Alligin , and although that 's where we packed it in , the walk could continue along a stunning ridge to cross the famous horns of Alligin , two pointy crags that stand like gateposts over a terrifying gully . |
| 25 | It must be the market square , Theda decided , glancing about and finding odd shapes that looked like empty barrows . |
| 26 | As Dan stated , ‘ The target was under a patch of woods that looked like all the other woods around , so we had to drop on some co-ordinates by a railway track . |
| 27 | We drive there on an empty street which is barely rubble , strewn with rusty cans that look like tankers , sweet wrappers , empty beer bottles and hordes of children shouting by the side of the road . |
| 28 | She had dyed black hair that looked like cotton wool dipped in liquid boot polish , her face was thin and feral-looking , and through the flimsy see-through negligee George could see that under her arms was enough hair to make a pair of identical wigs . |
| 29 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 30 | you know like Freddy Kruger three fingers that looked like blades and every night she would go to erm the fields and erm she would go into sheep fields and cow fields and she would kill three sheep and a cow every night except for a Sunday night ! |