Example sentences of "it [verb] like " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The bullets thumped into the wet blanket in front of me , making it jump like there was a bear inside . |
| 2 | But it looks like the next generation is here . |
| 3 | Rambo 's won first time , and now it looks like they 've got a decent horse . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down . |
| 5 | It 's odd by current supercar standards because as BMW 's 300bhp V12 engine was never meant to be a stressed item — it is carried in a subframe sling — but otherwise it looks like it could be built tomorrow . |
| 6 | It looks like they 're going to say summat bad on account of how serious they 're looking . |
| 7 | The lights in the caff are still on — it looks like it 's open , but it ai n't , cos I tried the doors and they 're locked . |
| 8 | It looks like the shop door has once more closed in his face . |
| 9 | ‘ And it looks like we 'll be moving there , if she sticks to the asking price , so you 'd better get used to the idea . |
| 10 | Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ? |
| 11 | As for movies which might use the old gothic mechanisms to haunt the imagination in more complex ways , to plunge you into the real nightmare of history , in the politically and morally conservative world of modern Hollywood it looks like they do n't stand a ghost of a chance |
| 12 | It looks like she 's going to last for a lot more than that . ’ |
| 13 | He 's got to work this one out for himself sooner or later , and it looks like it 's going to be sooner . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And , ’ added Gary on this occasion , ‘ it looks like she 's not coming back . ’ |
| 15 | Maxine : It looks like I 'm going to pick it up , but I 'm not . |
| 16 | And it looks like I 'm going to have to attend to that jockey girl . ’ |
| 17 | With a lively three-year-old and a baby who grabs at everything in reach , it looks like I 'll be forced to live in near-empty rooms for some years to come . |
| 18 | It looks like they duped him all along , duped all of us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Fred , it looks like we 've got a slight delay as a pitbull strays on to the pitch ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It looks like it 's going to be a record , ’ said group MD Tony Salem . |
| 21 | ‘ It looks like different rules apply . |
| 22 | The good land was taken off them and now it looks like we 're going to be driven into the ‘ badlands ’ again . |
| 23 | Either way , it looks like women will be as eager as men to invest in a tux for Christmas . |
| 24 | A Republican aide said despairingly : ‘ It looks like we 've lost Kentucky . |
| 25 | Royal watcher Margaret Holder said : ‘ It looks like it is going to be an unhappy time for the Queen and everyone else . |
| 26 | It looks like they can not make the Queen pay tax so they are coming after us instead . |
| 27 | ‘ It looks like he 's trying to out-do her in her field while she moves into his . |
| 28 | Now … it looks like we 're in a line of humans . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It looks like we 're going to be taken back to Woodstock here , ’ quipped Patrick Forge recently , as the motley Mother Earth crew took the stage at his and Gilles Peterson 's Talkin Loud night at the Fridge in Brixton . |
| 30 | Professional verdict : It looks like they 've gone back in time to the Fifties — not very practical |