Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For a couple of hours I feel like a man again , ’ said one . |
| 2 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 5 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 6 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 7 | To Joseph 's startled ears they sounded like a simultaneous volley of a thousand rifle shots . |
| 8 | And , although they were all enjoyable excursions , to Shiona they felt like a dose of purgatory . |
| 9 | Stick foods are currently very popular — with a lot of air in the mix they float like a Li-Lo . |
| 10 | To my ears it sounds like a composed solo as opposed to an improvisation , and as such is very typical of his rock/metal soloing approach at that time . |
| 11 | Yeah I was thinking wonderful , your bedroom it looks like a palace your bedroom , . |
| 12 | She is cheerful and stoical like so many others in her position , but to any outsider it seems like a hard life . |
| 13 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 14 | At first glance it looks like a straightforward consequence of overaccumulation ( chapter 11 ) . |
| 15 | In the flickering light he appears like a cat moving around cautiously . |
| 16 | And because it has open server in front of it from the client 's side it looks like a server , so any of those two hundred clients or any of front end tools can have access to the email system as if it was a resource or server . |
| 17 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 18 | In his comfortable living room a Transylvanian poet scoffed at the idea of protest : ‘ On a barricade you burn like a flame in seconds . |
| 19 | In the softer areas it worked like a hot knife through butter and large areas could be removed , shaped or modelled in an astonishingly short time , in comparison with traditional mallet and gouges . |
| 20 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 21 | He admits that since joining the Specials he thinks like a policeman . |
| 22 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 23 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 24 | It would be a different tale if they were in the king 's own shoes , for he 's a marcher lord himself by reason of his Bohun marriage , and when Wales is in question he thinks like a marcher lord , and there 's an end of it . |
| 25 | Well , in the next few weeks I sang like a canary . |
| 26 | 1 portable chair , collapsible ( you have probably noticed that , at the very moment you feel like a quick sit-down in an old house , all the chairs suddenly develop signs saying NOT TO BE SAT UPON , and all the window-seats are occupied by NT helpers ) |
| 27 | Her feet tapped loudly on the curving stone steps and for a moment she felt like a bit-player descending to the dungeons — with horror , and a stack of movie cameras , lying ahead . |
| 28 | And for nearly seven years she looked like an old woman of eighty . |
| 29 | But when he put it on , for a moment he looked like a prince . |
| 30 | From the outside it looked like a bank ( and with good reason , if Wayne was to be believed : ‘ That guy , ’ Wayne said , ‘ he 's raking it in ’ ) . |