Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 2 | When I asked why , he said he had seen through her , though she always seemed like a nice girl to me . |
| 3 | She still looked like a serious seventeen-year-old , was still wearing the same shy clothes . |
| 4 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 5 | She also looked like a total wreck ! |
| 6 | ‘ It just seemed like a ridiculous idea but I thought it was a nice place to go and have a look around , ’ he admits . |
| 7 | He always felt better there , and he still felt like a good wash ; he needed to get rid of all this sweat and clamminess , wash all the dust and the lead off his face and hands . |
| 8 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 9 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 10 | It always seemed like a momentary aberration . |
| 11 | He also seemed like a cruel one to her . |
| 12 | It now looked like a straight playoff between Christopher Meadowbrook and Spunk Davis , with maybe Nub Forkner as an outside possibility . |