Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] like a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had real cowboys teaching us how to use a gun although I 've never felt the need to carry a gun um , I felt like a five year old with a pistol . |
| 2 | Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it . ’ |
| 3 | He remembered the intense heat , the sunlight dancing off sword and dagger points , the roar of battle , the blood which pumped like a thousand fountains as men fell screaming from horrible wounds in head , body or thigh . |
| 4 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 5 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 6 | A CHEMICAL firm was fined £50,000 yesterday after people nearby in Houston , Texas , said it smelt like a thousand dirty socks in a gym . |
| 7 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 8 | Werewolf had been reading the owner 's handbook of Patterson 's BMW and experimenting with the passenger seat , having achieved what seemed like a dozen different positions before we got south of the river . |