Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was marked out by her brightly coloured stockings , some red , some yellow and some that looked like a chessboard . |
| 2 | The variety of colours and textures of paper available is astonishing , and there are even some that look like lace . |
| 3 | Different sections can be masked off in various ways ( for example , by a black card or a partial image painted on glass , partly left clear ) and exposed separately — either to give a composite that looks like a single image , or to show multiple images at once . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's obvious that bands like The Sisters Of Mercy and Fields Of The Nephilim have taken various things from The Birthday Party . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No policemen had been sent to intercept Adam , unless of course they were in plain clothes — those two that looked like businessmen , for instance . |
| 7 | Eight hundred That looked like a one then . |
| 8 | Also popular for travelling are quilted , overblown pseudo-ski jackets in pink or blue that look like duvets rampant . |