Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] like a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I swim like a fish through the peaceful , chattering crowd . |
| 32 | Mind you , I swim like a fish — a cooked one . |
| 33 | I sound like a nagging father . |
| 34 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 35 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
| 36 | I sound like a plaster saint . |
| 37 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
| 38 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 39 | ( God I sound like a middle-manager ! ) |
| 40 | If I 'm pissed off , I drive like a lunatic . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I feel like a bird , ’ said Jean . |
| 42 | ‘ At times I feel like a socket that remembers its tooth ’ , he writes , trying to retain some sense of the world even as he prepares to leave it . |
| 43 | ‘ Look , Bea , I feel like a shit as a matter of fact , but I ca n't live like this - . |
| 44 | ‘ I feel like a new man , ’ he said as she put the flask away and combed the crumbs from the dashboard into her cupped hand . |
| 45 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 46 | I feel like a maggot in a carcass . |
| 47 | ‘ I feel like a million dollars ’ , said Ruth . |
| 48 | I feel like a wretched bird here , taken from its loved mate and caged , trying to sing cheerfully to its poor lonely loved one , but failing fearfully … . |
| 49 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |
| 50 | No one explains it to me , and I 'm bewildered ; I feel like a doll , lying on the hospital bed , paper thin — the little dolls I used to make when I was younger . |
| 51 | I feel like a 24 handicapper . ’ |
| 52 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 53 | I feel like a public meeting . |
| 54 | ‘ I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition . |
| 55 | ‘ I feel like a leper , all they need to do now is put a bell round my neck . ’ |
| 56 | I feel like a priest giving someone Last Rites , only this Priest wants to scream . |
| 57 | ‘ I feel like a whore . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ I feel like a Maharajah waiting for the tiger to pounce on the tied-up goat , ’ Forster grinned . |
| 59 | ‘ I feel like a criminal , ’ he confessed innocently to Eva once , in a moment of forgetfulness , truth unfortunately sneaking through . |
| 60 | I feel like a Polo Mint , a thick , brittle wall surrounding a void that used to be me . |