Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sound just like a kid . |
| 2 | I feel rather like a visitor to a Stately Home who 's been allowed to peep into the Duke 's private apartments . ’ |
| 3 | I mean , mentally I feel angry , but physically I feel rather like a limp dish-rag ! |
| 4 | I feel somewhat like a Saint Bernard as I track down the American conductor John Nelson by telephone across the Alps . |
| 5 | I feel quite like a star , all these old friends ! ’ |
| 6 | My age is 64 years , but I feel more like a man of 30 and I am mentally more alert ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I like it there : I like the smells , and I like the food , and I like wandering about , and I like the people — even though in Japan I feel more like a foreigner than I do anywhere else in the world . |
| 8 | And you sit there like a dog chained to a stake fixed in the past , mouthin' your worn-out shibboleths , still full of hate for England and your Church , too arrogant to make your peace with God . |
| 9 | ‘ Guido was right , you look just like a Botticelli nymph ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not that you look remotely like a lioness — more like a half-drowned kitten . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You sound just like a policeman . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You sound uncommonly like a policeman to me , searching for evidence . |
| 13 | You sound more like a Noel Blake man ! |
| 14 | And you open just like a little shelter . |
| 15 | You seem almost like a farmer to me . ’ |
| 16 | The reason I say this is that they dive just like a peregrine , folding their wings and plummeting like an arrow into the sea to catch their prey . |
| 17 | Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated , they function more like a paradigm than a generalization . |
| 18 | They look rather like a music CD but they are kept permanently inside small plastic cartridges for protection . |
| 19 | The body is mainly white , so that from afar they look just like a large seagull . |
| 20 | The padded collar is comfortable enough and they look more like a tough shoe than a walking boot — designed , I suspect , to appeal more to women . |
| 21 | It made her feel more like a guest than a family member . |
| 22 | it look just like a ski resort all the bright jackets and the woolly hats and it was lovely , I mean they made it into , into an absolute skating ring for driving on |