Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I may look like a cabman , ’ he countered , ‘ but I 'm a charm in a salon . ’
2 I may look like a child , but Luke — Luke changed all that .
3 I 'll feel like a seaside postcard . "
4 I 'll look like a girl .
5 I 'll look like a girl . ’
6 ‘ There 'll be the most almighty fuss and I 'll look like a prize prick .
7 I 've known horses I could read like a book .
8 ‘ I 've got to the stage where if someone said ‘ here 's £10 million ’ I 'd sell like a shot .
9 And the , the swaying of the ship and I used to sleep like a log .
10 I would soften like a season
11 I would say like a bit myself you know
12 ‘ If I may not die a king I shall die like a gentleman ’ , he reflected .
13 Ooh your dad and I will sleep like a top .
14 Stepan crystallizes this ‘ something ’ in Golyadkin and Quixote terms when he tells Mrs Stavrogin ‘ You have always despised me ; but I will end like a knight faithful to my lady , for your good opinion has always been dearer to me than anything . ’
15 If his new wife has a child I will become like a servant .
16 I can feel like a sort of gritting ,
17 So perhaps I can sound like a mouthpiece for Terence , which I definitely am not .
18 Bedding experts reckon that you should n't pay less than £400 or so , which may sound like a lot , but actually works out at under 20p per night over a 10–15 year lifespan .
19 And the voice which would sing like a violin and with a bass which could shake the floor . ’
20 They 've got ta imagine it , you ought to have like a pull
21 If the covert researcher is not to arouse suspicion , then he or she must behave like a believer , not stepping out of line by questioning or exhibiting too much curiosity about the functioning of the organisation .
22 FOR THOSE who are n't aware , Jack Dee is the stand-up comedian who might look like a vampire masquerading as a stockbroker but whose singular style of delivery — deadpan sneers , disbelieving snorts of mirthless laughter , and , most refreshingly of all , blatant contempt for 99 per cent of the human race — is not only a timely call for the return of misanthropy to comedy it 's also brilliantly funny .
23 Maybe you 'll feel like a drink after that .
24 The fact that she could swear like a trooper and at one point told a nurse that I was a security guard escaping from a hijack attempt , also helped .
25 Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’
26 You 'd go like a shot mate !
27 obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were
28 You could behave like a pig and they would simply think how sweet and original you were , whereas if you were wildly in love you would be on your best behaviour , nervously uncertain and consequently lacking in charm .
29 He said she feared she would look like a money-grabber if she went to court to get the possessions after the divorce so he agreed to sign them over .
30 He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic .
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