Example sentences of "[vb past] i [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made me feel like a dirty slag and serve me right for getting pregnant . |
| 2 | SHE MADE ME FEEL LIKE A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT . |
| 3 | It made me feel like an old sock ! |
| 4 | When it was over , she walked across to the television , switched it off , turned to look at Charlotte and said : ‘ They made me sound like an unfeeling bitch . ’ |
| 5 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a psychological tonic which helped me to cope with a silent Parliament . |
| 7 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 8 | I had planned the journey here to Salisbury with considerable care , avoiding almost entirely the major roads ; the route might have seemed unnecessarily circuitous to some , but then it was one that enabled me to take in a fair number of the sights recommended by Mrs J. Symons in her excellent volumes , and I must say I was well pleased with it . |
| 9 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 10 | Never did I embark on a foreign visit with more keenness ; for I felt that time was short , and that such an opportunity might never recur . |
| 11 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 12 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 13 | Anna had me baptized by a Catholic priest . |
| 14 | So did I. He had me figured for a working stiff out to do the day 's chores , and he was n't going to bother an upright member of the community . |
| 15 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 16 | To do my family credit , no one actually said I looked like an animated barber 's pole . |
| 17 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 18 | Had I access to a neat and sound definition of labourism I would use it ; sadly I do not . |