Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you any notion , ’ he said ponderously , ‘ of the value of a mind that works like that ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | The ocean tilted up to meet him , its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations , fallen stars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You bellowed , sir ? ’ she enquired tartly , ignoring the dread that coiled like snakes in her stomach . |
| 8 | And then she made a noise that sounded like Ho-Hum . |
| 9 | It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp . |
| 10 | Now do welcome them , do make them feel at home , especially those of you who are new to the place you will know and remember what it 's like when you first come into a strange building that feels like home . |
| 11 | In the centre of the village was a fairly large building that looked like a church . |
| 12 | I do n't know about you fellahs , but I do n't like having a sister that looks like a tramp . ’ |
| 13 | Dozens of French companies , for example , discovered they could raise money that acts like capital but enjoys the tax break granted to debt through ‘ instantly repackaged perpetual securities ’ . |
| 14 | There is nothing else in a British woodland that sneezes like a human , so the only way to avoid startling Brock is to stifle it . |
| 15 | ‘ She had never been out of Italy before — now there she was without as much as a full day 's notice at Brown 's Hotel looking on top hats and umbrellas out of a window that worked like a guillotine . |
| 16 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 17 | We 've got one at work that looks like a tree |
| 18 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 19 | Take the inclusion of the G-Force Cyclonic vacuum cleaner , a large pink plastic machine that looks like a cross between the Pompidou Centre and an ice cream sundae . |
| 20 | Instead , in a piece of design as simple and innovative as the original notebook clamshell , GRiD engineers have invented a special hinge that 's enabled them to conceal a proper QWERTY keyboard beneath a machine that looks like a conventional , flat tablet pen computer . |
| 21 | ‘ A delightful young lady that looks like a boy . |
| 22 | Finally she was given an enormous burgundy leatherbound folder that looked like some medieval city charter : it was the menu . |
| 23 | A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design . |
| 24 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 25 | Not least when their percussionist hits an artificial tree containing a drum sampler , two car wheels and a vacuum cleaner that looks like one of Ministry 's skeleton mic stands . |
| 26 | When he declared , ‘ I resign myself to everything and put up with everything ’ , he was rejoicing in his discovery that to behave like a child sometimes worked . |
| 27 | Heads came bursting from every doorway to see them pass , and the warm hum of excitement and eagerness span after them in a golden thread , the voice of the brightness that flashed like sparks from face to face . |
| 28 | She held up an extremely odd-looking weapon that looked like a cross between a Sten gun and a stick insect . |
| 29 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 30 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |