Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | They 've got ta imagine it , you ought to have like a pull |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Maybe you 'll feel like a drink after that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Why you would n't feel like a human being at all , you 'd feel like a thing . ’ |
| 23 | You 'd go like a shot mate ! |
| 24 | obviously it was no good he , you could smoke like a chimney it made no damn difference the state his insides were |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He thought he could simply invite her to sleep with him and she would obey like a lunatic . |
| 28 | If you were shorter , then you would look like a C'zak . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The exploitation of workers ; the disruption of native cultures ; evidence of the military-industrial ethos , you will walk like a fool amongst other fools : a tourist , staring at the remnants of the past , memorials to worn-out cultures , galleries dedicated to the ostentation and decadence of slave-masters . |
| 30 | But when you go to dancing school in the Fall you shall have a taffeta dress and you will rustle like a lady in a ballgown . |