Example sentences of "that [noun] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only conclusion is that Brampton died like Vechey . |
| 2 | Not any more , there aren't. — You must need your eyes testing ! — Anyway , that Lock sounds like a right dump to me . |
| 3 | When they cut themselves , they see spots of blood and they had assumed that blood looks like that inside our bodies . |
| 4 | Cos I 've got the ones that Budgie had like that . |
| 5 | It sounds fast , fluid , detailed , and has a neutral tonal balance so that violas sound like violas — and not violins or cellos . |
| 6 | Their pictures were the memory bank of the sport , canonizing the ephemeral in magazines that surfers collected like relics . |
| 7 | The teachers said that ghosts looked like people with bed-sheets over their heads , and that witches all had cats and flew about on broomsticks . |
| 8 | Except that place looks like a looks like a . |
| 9 | He had taken it that Anna knew like everyone else , he was half in love with her and wanted to show his allegiance . |
| 10 | The envelope he found that morning looked like a reply from Viola . |
| 11 | Some who went to the surgery thought that Daisy looked like an animal herself , moving sometimes like a slow marmalade cat , other times like a bustling sheep dog-for she was a woman of moods — and seeming to combine the best and worst qualities of each . |
| 12 | She took them with such sweetness , and grace , with such a look of affectionate gratitude and pleasure , that Gabriel felt like the Wise Man who presented frankincense to the Virgin Mary . |
| 13 | He observes that fantasies operate like the primary process in that they ‘ fulfil desire ’ without the transformation of external reality but instead through the cathexis of , for example , the perceptual memory ( image ) of an organ . |
| 14 | It is sad that Countrywatch looks like becoming a growth industry . |