Example sentences of "that it [verb] like " 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 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 3 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
| 4 | The cat 's cradle had elongated so that it looked like a cone . |
| 5 | Frost was so thick that it looked like newly fallen snow . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was painted pink and surrounded by white , wooden palings so that it looked like an overgrown doll 's house . |
| 8 | Weasel thought that it looked like some dark fungus or mushroom . |
| 9 | I stared straight back at it and very slowly brought the gun round to bear , moving it first one way then slightly the other , so that it looked like something swaying with the wind in the grass . |
| 10 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 11 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me |
| 12 | Everybody has read about out of body experiences and I do n't know if that is what it was , but I was not frightened by the person who was looking at me and the image that I had and that I still have in my mind is that it looked like me . |
| 13 | I can only say that it sounded like one of those across the passage from my room . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 17 | It was simply a happy coincidence that it sounded like an insult ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The way you say that it sounds like crap , but I guess the essence of it makes sense . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | It is so obvious that it sounds like ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 22 | Although both males call , they do so in such close unison that it sounds like a single call . |
| 23 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This was in the mid 1560s , when Mary was still in power , so that it reads like Knox 's wishful thinking rather than anything else ; and it was then recast into the famous phrase by the Protestant chronicler Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie , writing in the 1570s , by which time the representative of the house of Stewart was the child James VI , and the lass had long gone — into English captivity . |
| 26 | The winter wind skeetered viciously along the dirty pavement and the grey air was so thick with cold that it felt like frosted glass against the raw flesh of my face . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Michael Stewart 's first comment on the interior was that it felt like being in an aircraft cockpit . |
| 29 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 30 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |