Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [verb] like a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can feel like a sort of gritting , |
| 2 | So perhaps I can sound like a mouthpiece for Terence , which I definitely am not . |
| 3 | and you 've a number inside the car as well on the bottom of the car on the floor so er some of them no , they do n't so some of them take the mickey of them and putting different plates on of a written off car from a scrap yard so you can have like a brand new Sierra smashed up in a scrap yard and you buy it for like a thousand pound and you this Sierra with a brand new Sierra , so you change all the plates over and do all this on the car and then you got a bloody Sierra worth about nine or ten thousand pound |
| 4 | As Niki puts it , ‘ you can drive like a god , say nothing but nice things in Italian and always eat spaghetti , it does n't do the slightest good , you are still a swine … |
| 5 | Then he can play like a dream , electrifying Anfield with that direct , no-nonsense running style which strikes fear into defenders . |