Example sentences of "he [vb -s] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says 'e feels like a young man again . ’ |
| 2 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 3 | He drinks like a fish ! |
| 4 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 5 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 6 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 7 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 8 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 9 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 10 | Small wonder , really , since he looks like a rock star — of the Bon Jovi ilk , as it happens . |
| 11 | It was left to another youngster , Russell Beardsmore , playing so tiny he looks like a mascot among the big central defenders , to show United the way . |
| 12 | He looks like a nice feller . ’ |
| 13 | He looks like a leader , and his name could have been invented for a passport to cross the maze of ethnic boundaries . |
| 14 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 15 | ‘ He looks like a pirate — acts like one , too . ’ |
| 16 | He looks like a waif . |
| 17 | ‘ He looks like a male model . |
| 18 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 19 | They meet the Keef Of Richards , a creature so alien that he looks like a superannuate chimp on heroin , who agrees ! |
| 20 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see why American women voted for Clinton — he looks like a winner . |
| 22 | People usually remember Mel Smith because he looks like a potato . |
| 23 | ‘ He looks like a pop star , ’ she said . |
| 24 | With his small moustache , each hair separated but thick and glossy , he looks like a shrewd seal , like Walter Cronkite . |
| 25 | He looks like a rather reliable young man who remembers his aunts ' birthdays , with his thick roll-neck sweaters and his glowing complexion and mild blue eyes . |
| 26 | ‘ Sometimes he looks like a poor little child outside a cake shop . ’ |
| 27 | He looks like a night-shift worker who 's just woken up . |
| 28 | He looks like a Viking . |
| 29 | Babur thinks he looks like a film star , the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper . |
| 30 | He looks like a lecturer . |