Example sentences of "that they [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is how to link them so that they become like sentences in a play or poem . |
| 2 | They told people for years that they lived like brother and sister — but no-one believed them . |
| 3 | The answer was : ‘ Well , it 's so tough for black guys to make breakthroughs that they try like mad to be better . |
| 4 | The wind carried the shouts of the guards away from us so that they sounded like the shouts of men drowning . |
| 5 | ‘ A friend who is ill … = ’ Miss Statham took her words and repeated them so that they sounded like a line from a Victorian poem . |
| 6 | There was complete silence as we padded through two more streets with walls so bitten away that they looked like lace . |
| 7 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 8 | The scrolls of the ears flat against the side of the skull were so large that they looked like abnormal excrescences . |
| 9 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 10 | He was looking at her , surprised and wary , the olive-toned colours of his subtly pattered shirt and plain pants bleached by the moonlight so that they looked like grey and silver . |
| 11 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 12 | Often , the coping strategies that teachers adopt to deal with contextual contingencies can become so habitual , so routinized , that they seem like coping no more , but worthwhile and valid teaching . |
| 13 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 14 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |
| 15 | People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context . |
| 16 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 17 | Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs . |
| 18 | These are played by four quadruple amputee performers , one a woman , so that they look like genuine robots , not ‘ men in suits ’ , yet are believable as characters . |
| 19 | They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet . |
| 20 | Elsewhere colours are handled with such delicacy that they look like light projected over the surface , a supposition which is emphatically contradicted by the physical texture of the paint . |
| 21 | One trader might try to " cash in " on the goodwill and reputation of another trader by dressing up his goods in such a way that they look like those of that other trader . |
| 22 | There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new . |
| 23 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 24 | The artist 's ‘ intimacy ’ with a ‘ handful ’ ( the possessive act of holding in one 's palm ) of ‘ familiar ’ sitters , fixed and therefore by implication immoveable both in the sense that they pose like good models and in the sense that they do not leave , travel or change and therefore have no narratives of their own . |
| 25 | That they learn like you do . |
| 26 | He said that they behaved like ‘ wild dogs ’ when they broke up a peaceful placard demonstration by schoolchildren , beating them with whips and clubs . |
| 27 | It was his second gin , and they poured them so that they tasted like a horse 's kick . |
| 28 | But regardless of who the people are , it is critical that they feel like a team in order to make any new idea work . |