Example sentences of "that it [verb] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is so unexpected when it is encountered for the first time that it feels like a deliberate deception . |
| 2 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
| 3 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 4 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 5 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 6 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 9 | It was simply a happy coincidence that it sounded like an insult ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 12 | Although both males call , they do so in such close unison that it sounds like a single call . |
| 13 | Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough . |
| 14 | When she first read the letter , standing out there in the heat of Nassau Street , Ruth was overcome by a pang of homesickness so severe that it felt like a pain burning inside her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Remember that Dickens was writing before Freud had begun to uncover the immense complexity of the human personality , before William James 's pioneering work on consciousness , which showed that our conscious mind is not solid but that it runs like a stream , swirling endlessly around symbols , associations from the past ; always moving , never at rest . |
| 19 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 20 | Be careful not to install a mirror in such a position that it looks like a door , which people might then try to walk through ! |
| 21 | The first promising thing about the Clarendon Hotel at Chale on the Isle of Wight is that it looks like a charming little English country hotel . |
| 22 | Spread the American frosting over the body of the sheep and swirl with a palette knife so that it looks like a woolly coat . |
| 23 | When the moon came up , a full moon that illuminated the wet stony surface of the Waste so that it shone like a polished shield , they were able to go more quickly amongst the dappled and striped shadows of the trees . |
| 24 | Do not be misled , however , into thinking that it works like a spreadsheet because it is only a grid for entering figures and can not perform any calculations for you . |
| 25 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |