Example sentences of "[vb past] like [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was still in bed and felt like staying there for the rest of the day . |
| 2 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 3 | He felt like hitting out at him , this kidnapper of his daughter . |
| 4 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 5 | I felt like sitting about with my feet up , knitting . |
| 6 | Anabelle felt like curling up in a ball and plugging her ears until they all went away — and she would have , too , if she had thought it would do any good . |
| 7 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 8 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 9 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |
| 10 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 11 | Last Saturday Kilmarnock humbled them at Ibrox , and basement boys Dundee looked like following up with another sensation at Dens Park yesterday . |
| 12 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 13 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |