Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 2 | She 'd felt like a trapped animal back in the cottage , and like a trapped animal her only instinct had been to escape . |
| 3 | She 'd acted like a silly hen . |
| 4 | She 'd behaved like a wanton , and why ? |
| 5 | Instead , she began to light like a wild cat . |
| 6 | She lay wallowing like a rosy dolphin in clouds of foam , with her exuberant hair pinned up on the top of her head . |
| 7 | She had behaved like a sensible mother . |
| 8 | She continued to twitch like a headless chicken long after she was dead . |
| 9 | She tended to jump like a nervous thoroughbred if he touched her arm or kissed her cheek . |