Example sentences of "she [vb past] like a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | She had n't realised how tense she was until she heard that he was all right , but now she crumpled like a wet paper bag , laughing and crying and laughing again all at once , while Mick hugged her and passed her tissues . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She seemed like an average child , a little unusual , wonderful hair , very composed . |
4 | She started like a frightened cat , and looked up at him wide-eyed . |
5 | She rolled off the bed and excused herself , and as she wandered naked towards the bathroom she waved like a besotted lover . |
6 | He knew his gaze was avid , and she blushed like a young girl and lowered her eyes . |
7 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
8 | ‘ She looked like a committed townee to me . ’ |
9 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
10 | She looked like a good cunt . |
11 | In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel . |
12 | She was wonderfully , miraculously improved , in fact she looked like a normal animal . |
13 | At night , lit from within , she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers . |
14 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
15 | She looked like a Spanish gypsy — exotic , vivid , volatile . |
16 | She looked like a leathery caricature of the old woman she might have become . |
17 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |
18 | In the flying dust she looked like a frost-shocked tree . |
19 | She looked like a discarded puppet . |
20 | She looked like a white rock ; a pillar from Stonehenge , fallen . |
21 | She looked like a different person . |
22 | Coupled with her dark brown hair and high cheekbones , she looked like a miniature woman . |
23 | ‘ She looked like a little Biafran with these spindly arms and legs and this big , distended stomach . |
24 | With her short swinging hair , she looked like a medieval troubadour . |
25 | She had been crying again and her mascara had been washed away and she looked like an eleven-year-old waking up in hospital after an operation . |
26 | Flat-chested , narrow-hipped , her fair hair sleek from swimming , she looked like an impish boy . |
27 | She looked like an Egyptian mummy in boots , but it was a good picture of her rescuer . |
28 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
29 | Her face had got rounder as she had grown older ; in her spectacles , she looked like an angry owl . |
30 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |