Example sentences of "[pron] felt like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 2 | I felt like a clubbed seal , but that was n't what worried me . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt like a small boy beside her . |
| 4 | I felt like a real woman . |
| 5 | Half the time I felt like a vicious little whore and the other half like the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel . |
| 6 | I felt like a cold hand on my heart … ’ he paused dramatically , relishing the metaphor ; which he then spoiled by mixing it , ‘ … as if someone had walked over my grave . |
| 7 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 8 | She felt like a total loony doing these things for herself . |
| 9 | By the time morning finally came she felt like a total wreck . |
| 10 | She felt like a bad child , a bad little girl who would n't give up . |
| 11 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 12 | ‘ It felt like a good career move. , |
| 13 | It felt like a warm scrubbing brush . |
| 14 | Although it felt like a miraculous coincidence for us at the time , it was more that we were all ready to grapple with this issue in our lives . |
| 15 | It felt like a huge responsibility . |
| 16 | She lifted it aside — it felt like a heavy curtain — and still could not see anything . |
| 17 | Bitterly disappointed , he later complained he felt like a Spanish general without a horse . |
| 18 | More importantly , he felt like a great sponge waiting to be filled . |
| 19 | Plain as a pikestaff , really , even prominent front teeth ; yet , he had been unbearable until he got her ; and now , as Jim himself said , he felt like a lame dog who had found a wonderful home . |
| 20 | He felt like a pursued husband , though not like any husband that he had ever been himself . |
| 21 | He felt like a kept man . |
| 22 | Sometimes he felt like a middle-aged man trapped inside a young man 's body . |
| 23 | He felt like a little boy suddenly told by his mother to share an afternoon at the cinema with another child . |
| 24 | The touch of his hand on hers felt like a scorching electric current , jolting her brutally out of her trance and back to the sunlit terrace . |