Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 2 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 3 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 4 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 8 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 9 | I sound like a nagging father . |
| 10 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel like a new girl . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 14 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 15 | and she says oh , he said oh yeah I feel really miserable today , I feel like a right lesbian ! |
| 16 | I feel like a real slut ! |
| 17 | I feel like a dying night bird . |
| 18 | ‘ I feel like a drowned rat as well . |
| 19 | I feel like a damn old woman . |
| 20 | I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 … . |
| 23 | I feel like a whole person again . |
| 24 | ‘ I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition . |
| 25 | I feel like a naughty schoolkid who 's standing in front of the headmaster . |
| 26 | Right now I feel like a 24-handicap golfer . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I feel like a walking wounded , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I feel like a public meeting . |
| 29 | You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post . |
| 30 | He also said that you attack like a well-trained guard dog . |