Example sentences of "[verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry to write like this when you are so hard up yourself — Please do n't think I 'm bemoaning — but honestly this house is insupportable . |
| 2 | Yet even as an ardent Darwinian , keen to prove by minute observation how seeds were adapted to travel on wind , water or in the maws of animals , he continues to write like an angel and to soar like a philosopher . |
| 3 | Looking at a piece of work on the board Mrs Singh said she wanted her son to write like that . |
| 4 | ‘ But he did n't noticeably try to write like him . ’ |
| 5 | To write like that and all . |
| 6 | I know they 're very clever , it must be wonderful to be able to write like Alan Sillitoe . |
| 7 | Shaped and polished , they would wink like jewels . |
| 8 | Christine glared at her , the eyes smouldering like emeralds . |
| 9 | United responded like champions and laid seige to the Chelsea goal for the remainder of the game . |
| 10 | Major Tzann posed like a peacock , inspecting himself in a nearby mirror . |
| 11 | Reggae music was not organised like the popular commercial music of the big groups and their imitators . |
| 12 | Worse news for complacent Germans is that Chancellor Helmut Kohl told parliament yesterday that Germany must overhaul its social , economic and educational systems if it is to remain a leading industrial power : Germany has the shortest working week , the oldest students and the youngest pensioners among industrial countries , and that this undermines competitiveness — ‘ a successful industrial nation , a nation with a future , can not be organised like a collective amusement park . ’ |
| 13 | In this Council we do n't have , it 's not organised like that . |
| 14 | She tended to jump like a nervous thoroughbred if he touched her arm or kissed her cheek . |
| 15 | French-trained Lashkari , owned like Shernazar by the Aga Khan , had won the inaugural running of the Turf in 1984 but had not seemed at his best in 1985 . |
| 16 | Thyer , owned like Miznah by by Maktoum Al Maktoum , tackles the Fielden Stakes on Thursday as a build-up to a Kentucky Derby clash with Arazi . |
| 17 | Soft solder joins like a glue , without significant interdiffusion ( or exchange ) with the metals it bonds , leaving the composition of metal and solder essentially unchanged . |
| 18 | L. Lives Like Logs of Driftwood : This wants to be a long , very well written story . |
| 19 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 20 | He is also a kind of consultant that 's less well-known , he 's supposed to run the art market — lives like a tycoon , but he really loves painting . |
| 21 | He lives like a farmer . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's strange , ’ said Marian , ‘ to think Tess will be his wife , not a fine lady , but a girl who lives like us . ’ |
| 23 | No one else lives like this . |
| 24 | ‘ Another strange comment I once heard from a doctor was that transsexuals were obsessed by sex , which was great news to us , especially to me , who lives like a monk . ’ |
| 25 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just that when you get two things happening like that , people say there 's going to be three , do n't they ? |
| 27 | this is weird cos it 's like happening like really late |
| 28 | It took about a day and a half for each of them , during which time my nerve-ends were pinging like a Du-gnorian soniharp . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he held his heart in check until the schiltrons of the pikemen were in close range , and being harrowed like arable fields by the steady volleys of arrows . |
| 30 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |