Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 2 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 3 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 4 | She 'd acted like a silly hen . |
| 5 | She 'd behaved like a wanton , and why ? |
| 6 | She had behaved like a sensible mother . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he had replied like a sulky baby . |