Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 2 | Definitely no pier and nothing that looked like a break in the reef . |
| 3 | Can you afford somebody that fades like that , I do n't know it 's |
| 4 | I assumed , in my usual mechanistic way that that meant that everything that looked like being cancerous had been cut out . |
| 5 | Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha ! |
| 6 | The real treat of the evening , however , is their version of Bowie 's ‘ She Shook Me Cold ’ where poppy nostalgia is transformed into something that sounds like the soundtrack for a Kenneth Anger movie . |
| 7 | When they hear something that sounds like prey , they move their heads until the frequency is the same in both ears , then keep their heads exactly in position and fly straight towards the sound . |
| 8 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 9 | Among the blocks there were other large items embedded in the hump : a skeletal pylon , a diminishing spiral of linked , vitreous bubbles — and something that looked like the front end of an asteroid cruncher , a large sub-warp ship with front-opening doors big enough to engulf space rocks . |
| 10 | He looked at Alina , wanting to ask her what she 'd done ; but she was standing just out of his reach , and watching him with something that looked like compassion . |
| 11 | She came back later with a shopping bag full of something that looked like boxes . |
| 12 | Through the window , Carl saw a man in a white coat run out from under the plane with something that looked like a grenade in his hand . |
| 13 | A squat kit of chunky glassware , an orange rug of Iranian provenance and recent manufacture , a Spanish guitar and a pair of maracas , two oil paintings ( the first showing puppies and kittens asnooze , the second a nude , ideally rendered ) , an elephant 's foot , something that looked like a microphone stand but turned out to be a Canadian sculpture , a Bengali chess set , a first edition of Little Women , and various other cultural treasures from all over the world . |
| 14 | Mrs Garfitt , fat , voluble and slovenly , paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days . |
| 15 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 16 | She really wanted a cup of tea and she knew perfectly well that Glyn would serve her up something that looked like brown shoe polish . |
| 17 | It was cooked by a woman , or something that looked like a woman but could have been a giant panda . |
| 18 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 19 | Quigley leaned down , picked up the box and , from it , pulled out something that looked like a waffle iron . |
| 20 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
| 21 | I wanted something that looked like a sea animal . |
| 22 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 23 | Then , ‘ Berridge 's ’ , he said , or something that sounded like that . |
| 24 | Taliesin murmured something that sounded like , ‘ All the riches of the world we shall lay at thy feet , ’ and Fribble , who felt that a note of practicality was called for , said , ‘ Be assured that we can pay your fee , ’ and Calatin looked pleased . |
| 25 | He was pointing at Robert and yelling something that sounded like Arabic but turned out to be very emotional English . |
| 26 | ‘ We were in the car and then there was a big bang and something that sounded like an explosion , ’ said Gary , who had hoped to visit friends near Lyonette Road . |
| 27 | Monaco has produced yet more mirror glass , with a doll 's house Georgian faade , Pakistan something that looks like a pretentious curry house in Southall . |
| 28 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 29 | If you use too much colour you can end up with something that looks like a fruit salad . |
| 30 | The few people left that Intel Corp has n't non-disclosed about the P5 will be able to glean some details at next months Hot Chips Conference in California : the P5 will be previewed and presentations made on Alpha , a 200-MFLOPS PA-RISC , HyperSparc , the ARM 600 , something that looks like Sun 's Tsunami and LSI 's single-chip 33020 X terminal controller . |