Example sentences of "it [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my hanging position I contorted to watch him , so it seemed like he was tackling a serious overhang . |
| 2 | ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain . |
| 3 | ‘ Sometimes it seemed like he was breaking the club transfer record every week , but he told me if I kept on doing it I was safe . ’ |
| 4 | if it worked like they say things work it would all be nice for everybody , and it is n't . |
| 5 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 6 | It looked like there were just fortunes being spent , which there were , but no-one could quite figure out where the money was coming from , or why this money was being spent in this way . |
| 7 | It looked like she 'd been Christmas shopping . |
| 8 | It looked like it could rain again or even snow . |
| 9 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 10 | On the outside it looked like something left over from the siege of Leningrad in 1944 , but inside everything was in immaculate white , including a large wrinkled matron who proceeded to give the medico a verbal roasting , followed by expulsion from the premises . |
| 11 | Just when it looked like the proverbial music centre was to disappear out the front door and into the sheriff 's van , Rough managed to contact his solicitors who paid the £250 Rough owed to an Edinburgh Sports Company . |
| 12 | Vern said it looked like the owners were coming to use the boat again soon : we 'd better clear off quick before it was light in the morning , specially as it 'd be Saturday . |
| 13 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 14 | It looked like there might be pus in it . |
| 15 | It looked like someone had been drinking and eating bread , ’ said Rojas . |
| 16 | It looked like the crowd would be in for a treat against Trafford at Riverside when Rick Smith , back to his sharpest , opened the scoring after 63 seconds . |
| 17 | At one point it looked like we 'd have to restore the whole room . |
| 18 | It looked like the clock was running faster than usual . |
| 19 | Surely he felt a modicum of frustration watching the black youth movie take shape until it looked like Juice was an afterthought to Boyz N The Hood . |
| 20 | It looked like it was all getting rather heated again down there ; then the leaves got in the way and we could n't see any more . |
| 21 | They reckon there was a load of fallen branches lying under the air shaft before we pushed the guy down it ; according to the young cop who first went down it looked like he 'd crawled out from the middle of the pile . |
| 22 | It looked like an old man 's wavering ] . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea . |
| 24 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 25 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 26 | Fergus waited until the herd was as close as it looked like it was going to come , then sighted on the limping beast , still two hundred yards away . |
| 27 | If Vadinamia had the Fraxillian cylinder , it looked like I 'd be making a safe and secure pick-up . |
| 28 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 29 | And the way she was talking it looked like they were gon they were going to put some more and invest some time , money |
| 30 | After that it looked like they would trample all over their local rivals . |