Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] like a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 2 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 3 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
| 4 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 5 | I feel like a damn old woman . |
| 6 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel like a walking wounded , ’ he said . |
| 8 | You look like a mental deficient standing there gawking . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You look like a new religious cult from San Francisco , ’ Nutty decided . |
| 10 | ‘ You look like a little blue bush-baby … ’ |
| 11 | You look like a little Dutch girl . |
| 12 | F—in' red wine on the carpet , that was bad , white wine on the walls so you get like a nice green tinge and they 'd been sick and broken the toilet seat and they 'd shit in the toilet and not flush it , fags in the coffee cups , I do n't let them come round any more … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You talk like a bloody prosecuting counsel . |
| 14 | Moore joins in , so that for a brief couple of seconds we sound like a small cracked tribute to Sir Harry Secombe . |
| 15 | It had made her feel like a dutiful grown-up daughter , visiting a hypochondriac distant relative once a week . |