Example sentences of "[vb past] like some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed like some event described in a legend , remote and formal . |
| 2 | Kefalov bulged like some fossil brain adorned with innumerable ridges . |
| 3 | I walked like some sleepwalker as he showed me empty rooms and a steep , stone-vaulted cellar . |
| 4 | But then the shattering instant fallback into sub-light speed felt like some thing was trying to pull my bones out through my flesh . |
| 5 | The countryside looked like some vision of hell ; white , silent fields and black trees against a grey sky . |
| 6 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 7 | Black eyeliner on my lower lids , and I looked like some kind of She-devil . |
| 8 | He looked like some kind of rare orchid , dressed in a Crocodile Dundee hat of soft green suede and miniature matching trousers under a jerkin of pink washed silk lined with purple . |
| 9 | It looked like some sort of military place , so I walked in . ’ |
| 10 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 11 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 12 | She was so small , and Luke so long in the leg , he looked like some father riding a seaside donkey to amuse his children . |
| 13 | He pointed to the bolster at the top of the bed where a small , white rose lay like some gift waiting to be presented . |
| 14 | Dot knew that her father was at a place that Gloria rarely talked to other people about , but kept like some kind of secret . |
| 15 | It sounded like some cowboy duel . |
| 16 | It sounded like some kind of ritual in the way the Oak said it and the other Trees bowed their heads in acknowledgement . |
| 17 | He do n't have no tower himself , but Khor said he had like some socket on his finger , just plugs it in to some surgery-box and the machine fixes you up real good . |