Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I got like a big bird box that we put a little outside bird box and everything |
| 2 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 3 | I muttered like a fractious housewife . |
| 4 | On my first day there I acted like a young lord , lying on my bed , my boots on , sipping from a cup of canary and wondering what steps I should take next . |
| 5 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 6 | ‘ Good evening , ’ he said , as I scuttled like a giant shaved rodent into the furthest corner of the caravan . |
| 7 | I felt like a jaded casting director as I banished him to the wastepaper bin . |
| 8 | I felt like a clubbed seal , but that was n't what worried me . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt like a small boy beside her . |
| 10 | I felt like a real woman . |
| 11 | Half the time I felt like a vicious little whore and the other half like the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel . |
| 12 | I felt like a cold hand on my heart … ’ he paused dramatically , relishing the metaphor ; which he then spoiled by mixing it , ‘ … as if someone had walked over my grave . |
| 13 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 16 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 17 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 18 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 19 | I spoke like a small child . |
| 20 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 21 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 22 | I whimpered like a wounded puppy dog . |
| 23 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
| 24 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 25 | She had n't realised how tense she was until she heard that he was all right , but now she crumpled like a wet paper bag , laughing and crying and laughing again all at once , while Mick hugged her and passed her tissues . |
| 26 | ‘ You dropped like a felled ox . ’ |
| 27 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 28 | I felt safe — she seemed like a demure young woman . |
| 29 | ‘ You yelled like a stuck pig . ’ |
| 30 | She started like a frightened cat , and looked up at him wide-eyed . |