Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I smell like a major operation . |
2 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
3 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
4 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
5 | I look like a demented barber . |
6 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
7 | 'You want to make sure I look like the guilty party if anything goes wrong . |
8 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
9 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
10 | I know I sound like a bloody know-all , but all I can say is , if that satisfies the police doctor , it does n't satisfy me . ’ |
11 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
12 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
13 | I sound like a nagging father . |
14 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
15 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
16 | ‘ I feel like a new man , ’ he said as she put the flask away and combed the crumbs from the dashboard into her cupped hand . |
17 | ‘ I feel like a new girl . ’ |
18 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
19 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
20 | and she says oh , he said oh yeah I feel really miserable today , I feel like a right lesbian ! |
21 | I feel like a real slut ! |
22 | I feel like a dying night bird . |
23 | ‘ I feel like a drowned rat as well . |
24 | I feel like a damn old woman . |
25 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |
26 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
27 | I feel like a wretched bird here , taken from its loved mate and caged , trying to sing cheerfully to its poor lonely loved one , but failing fearfully … . |
28 | I feel like a whole person again . |
29 | ‘ I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition . |
30 | I feel like a naughty schoolkid who 's standing in front of the headmaster . |