Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is how to link them so that they become like sentences in a play or poem . |
| 2 | The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning . |
| 3 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 4 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 5 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 6 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 7 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |
| 8 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 9 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 10 | These are played by four quadruple amputee performers , one a woman , so that they look like genuine robots , not ‘ men in suits ’ , yet are believable as characters . |
| 11 | There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new . |
| 12 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 13 | His French accent had been through the grinder in the New World , so that he sounded like a gangster in a B movie . |
| 14 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 15 | But he could n't control it , for all his knowledge , and it would lift his hair into bristles so that he looked like Desperate Dan and she could n't help but laugh until his fragile ego wobbled and then he shouted and then she loved him more , more than when he was intact . |
| 16 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 17 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 18 | It was the same at the funeral , they were all so quiet , the four men who brought in the coffin wore thick soft-soled shoes so as not to make a noise , nothing must interrupt so that it seemed like a silent film unreeling to the sound of psalms . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 21 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 22 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 23 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 24 | He shakes his head and I get a shiver , remembering just that gesture of his , repeated and repeated so that it became like a nervous tic after a while , back in Strathspeld , after Clare 's funeral in ‘ 89 ; a gesture of disbelief , refusal , non-acceptance . |
| 25 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 26 | The Woman leaned forward , her face eager , but it was Doyle who answered , dropping every word slowly so that it rippled like a stone in a pond . |
| 27 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 28 | Forcing her mouth into a winsome smile , Gina pronounced the greeting , so that it sounded like the English ‘ good day ’ , in accordance with the instructions of her Berlitz language guide . |
| 29 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 30 | Using a brush and diluted green and blue food colouring , paint the quarter globe of white on the cake drum so that it looks like Earth . |