Example sentences of "i felt like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 2 | This oath of secrecy I found so oppressive at first that I felt like the barber in the Greek myth who had to dig a hole in the ground and whisper , ‘ Midas has asses ' ears ! ’ |
| 3 | I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was . |
| 4 | I felt like the nineteenth-century missionary , Annie Besant , who wrote in her diary on Christmas Day , in a blizzard on a Tibetan mountain surrounded by absolutely untrustworthy tribesmen , ‘ Quite safe here with Jesus . ’ |
| 5 | I felt like the moon , the stars and all the planets had fallen on me … boys , if you ever pray , pay for me now . |
| 6 | I felt like the babes in the wood concealed by leaves lovingly given . |
| 7 | Now I can understand that isolation , but then I felt like the stray cat of Egypt , not only unloved but undeserving of all regard . |
| 8 | I felt like the girl-at-the-ball-coming-down-the-grand-staircase . |
| 9 | I felt like the cops arriving in the hippy camp in ‘ Electra Glide in Blue ’ ( the right-winger 's ‘ Easy Rider ’ ) . |