Example sentences of "[coord] she [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hair was dressed in a pyramid of fat ringlets and she looked like a Restoration wench , maid to Millamant , scene stealer , fit to be kissed in corners . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 4 | Camille felt intimidated and envious : she thought the girls did n't like the look of her and suspected she was after their jobs , and she felt like an interloper . |
| 5 | Her father was cross with her , if not downright angry , and she felt like weeping inside . |
| 6 | He laughed then , at her flustered madness , and she felt like throwing the whole lot over him . |
| 7 | Halfway there and she felt like a break . |
| 8 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
| 9 | all I could is , I 'll get Tracy summat to wear and you got time , and she picks like a blouse , she 'd pay a hundred pound for one . |
| 10 | Rildia Bee kept saying what a nice country it seemed to be , and she grinned like Christmas . |
| 11 | But after about twenty paces , when she had forgotten that he might still be looking , the shoulders drooped , her footsteps slackened , and she walked like someone in a dream . |
| 12 | On Top Of The Pops I told her I was in love with her — and she laughed like a drain . |
| 13 | The gown slipped soundlessly from her shoulders and she tiptoed like a shadow towards him . |
| 14 | She was naked and she smelled like Heaven . |
| 15 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Ariel poured water from a gourd on to a cloth and pressed it to Sycorax 's lips , and she sucked like an infant . |
| 18 | And she slipped like a ghost into the shadows and ran down the gallery . |
| 19 | He knew his gaze was avid , and she blushed like a young girl and lowered her eyes . |
| 20 | We stand holding each other , and she shivers like a butterfly and her tears trickle down my skin . |
| 21 | Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’ |
| 22 | Now Rebecca is five and she looks like this . |
| 23 | Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool . |
| 24 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 25 | But she sang like an angel . |
| 26 | But she looked like a Protestant faced with the Spanish Inquisition . |
| 27 | But she looked like somebody from Beetlejuice , man . |
| 28 | and , but she says like it , you know what I mean like |
| 29 | Guilt swept over Constance but she felt like saying ‘ nor for me ’ , as Louise went on , ‘ Just for me , darling , say you 're sorry to your mother and then I 'll sort something out . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't want to appear awkward , ’ said Lili that evening , ‘ but she looks like something the cat dragged in . ’ |