Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [verb] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had to make do without his familiar retinue of civil servants and , as plenty of critics from his own side have pointed out , he neither looks nor sounds like a prime minister . |
| 2 | Called Touchbank , the system looks and operates like an automatic telling machine with a menu listing household and travel insurance policies on a screen upon the insertion of a Connect , Barclaybank or BarclayPlus card held by 6m customers . |
| 3 | Indeed it was runner-up in the European Car of the Year Award , which is only right because it looks and feels like a European car . |
| 4 | When the polyps are retracted the polypary looks and feels like a piece of wet leather , hence the common name for these animals . |
| 5 | The pen , which is cordless and has no batteries , looks and feels like an ordinary pen . |
| 6 | He looks and sounds like a man who feels he can beat anyone in Ireland these days . |
| 7 | The body looks and behaves like a pretty impressive agent in its own right . |
| 8 | This is why — it is just another way of expressing the message of earlier chapters — the bee colony looks and behaves like a truly integrated single vehicle . |
| 9 | The ballroom is scattered with cheap wooden chairs , tables , rolls of ancient , mouldy-smelling carpets , a couple of old motorbikes and lots of bits of motorbikes standing or lying on oil-stained sheets , and what looks and smells like an industrial-standard deep-fat frier with the associated hoods , filters , fan housing and ducting . |
| 10 | ‘ She looks and moves like a winner . ’ |
| 11 | It looks and performs like a pro unit , and even allowing for its reliance on unbalanced connections ( avoid long cables ! ) it 's an all-rounder which amply suits any home or semi-pro studio . |
| 12 | The feeling that England stifles and smothers and crushes like a steamroller over everything fresh and green and original . |
| 13 | Fly is a tall , skinny , short-haired , very independent lady who dresses and swears like a Vietnam veteran ( North Vietnam that is ) . |
| 14 | Montepulciano not only looks but behaves like a stage set , patronising barbers ' shops and swirly baroque cafe ; its hours are numbered by a forbidding clock-tower Pulcinella ; it goes to church , outside the walls , in the most theatrical building of all . |
| 15 | ‘ She shoots and fights like a boy , but there is something different about her . |
| 16 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 17 | She sings and acts like an angel and is extremely pleased because Wolfgang has served her extraordinarily well . ’ |
| 18 | It is a completely random distribution , within limits , about a mean which sounds and looks like the snow-like flurries on television screens when there is no input . |
| 19 | Even these , however , are insufficient to disguise the fact that , though more than adequate , the book looks , feels and reads like a hundred others . |
| 20 | FENDER Stratocaster 1971 , absolutely gorgeous , cream with rosewood neck , pre-CBS pickup , looks , feels and sounds like an old one , present owner of 12 years . |