Example sentences of "he be like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is like a poor man lifted into a limitless inheritance . |
| 2 | He is like a frightened rabbit staring into the headlights of the Tory juggernaut — he does n't know what to do about it , so he claims it 's unstoppable . |
| 3 | He is like a naked light . |
| 4 | He is like a trapped animal now . |
| 5 | He needs to be thinner , he 's like a bloody dustbin ai n't he ? |
| 6 | and she looked on it , he 's like a black granite pillar . |
| 7 | He 's like a small child who is so busy peering at something that he does n't look where he is going . |
| 8 | He 's like a wild animal . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's like a wild animal ! ’ she said . |
| 10 | He 's like a big kid ! |
| 11 | He 's like a big turkey ! |
| 12 | ‘ He 's like a beautiful jockey , ’ says a fellow minister . |
| 13 | He seemed so old a few minutes ago and now he 's like a little kid again . |
| 14 | ‘ His soul 's gone … he 's like a dead man . ’ |
| 15 | He 's like a different child to the one who arrived in Britain with his mother in August as a UN evacuee from Sarajevo . |
| 16 | ‘ He was like a young cart-horse . ’ |
| 17 | Dillon gave no sign of being frightened , but Tweed sensed he was like a coiled spring . |
| 18 | The training officer , who endorsed all this had picked up his standards from his dealing director , who was later to claim of him : " He was like a lost lamb when he started . |
| 19 | At thirty-three , he was like a lovesick teenager , which was a strange way for a man of so many experiences to be struck . |
| 20 | He was like a wounded tiger . |
| 21 | He was like a middle-aged child , puzzled and sweet , his blue eyes full of tears . |
| 22 | He was like a mad dog . ’ |
| 23 | He was like a caged animal — gentle , desperate . |
| 24 | He was like a caged animal — gentle , desperate … |
| 25 | He was like a bad gangster movie ; laughable if she 'd felt like laughing . |
| 26 | what they said about Maxwell , he was like a dodgy seaman |
| 27 | I bet he was like a big child , was he ? |
| 28 | He was like a Greek god , except that his hair was black and the nose had a slight curve to it that gave his broad , open features a somewhat predatory look . |
| 29 | He was like a heat-seeking missile . |
| 30 | Fox said : ‘ He was like a hungry dog let loose in a butcher 's shop ; not knowing where to start . |