Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 2 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 3 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 4 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 5 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 7 | I sound like a nagging father . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel like a new girl . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I feel like a new man , ’ he said as she put the flask away and combed the crumbs from the dashboard into her cupped hand . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 11 | and she says oh , he said oh yeah I feel really miserable today , I feel like a right lesbian ! |
| 12 | I feel like a real slut ! |
| 13 | I feel like a dying night bird . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel like a drowned rat as well . |
| 15 | I feel like a wretched bird here , taken from its loved mate and caged , trying to sing cheerfully to its poor lonely loved one , but failing fearfully … . |
| 16 | I feel like a whole person again . |
| 17 | ‘ I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition . |
| 18 | I feel like a naughty schoolkid who 's standing in front of the headmaster . |
| 19 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 20 | I feel like a public meeting . |
| 21 | He was using his ‘ goon 's ’ voice , the one he put on when he wanted to make himself sound like a harmless imbecile . |
| 22 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 23 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 24 | Under Stephen and his successor , Djuradj Branković ( 1427–56 ) , Serbia enjoyed a ‘ silver age ’ , in which Serbian national culture displayed a vigour and intensity which seem like a brave defiance in the face of the overwhelming pressures from all sides which led in 1459 to the extinction of the Serbian state . |
| 25 | You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post . |
| 26 | He also said that you attack like a well-trained guard dog . |
| 27 | You look like a young priest in your black and white , no , like a novice , an apprentice monk , you view the world with shocked amazement , you need a real woman in your life . ’ |
| 28 | You look like a constipated panda . ’ |
| 29 | You look like a drowned rat nothing personal . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You look like a drowned rat , ’ he commented , raising one eyebrow . |