Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 2 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 3 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 4 | He knew his gaze was avid , and she blushed like a young girl and lowered her eyes . |
| 5 | breathing in , and he smelt like a wet dog , drying . |
| 6 | Where , when you sub- contract some international work , at some stage you get something back that you checked and it looked like a right pig but . |
| 7 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 8 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 9 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 10 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 11 | My room was over the back door and it squeaked like a murdered rat . |
| 12 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 13 | Mae was refused a visa and what looked like a short hiccup developed into a long-drawn-out campaign . |
| 14 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 15 | Jodami had never been cantered but he looked like a strong old fashioned chaser , ’ said the trainer . |
| 16 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |