Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not see why you should apologise to me in any way , it is I who behaved like a little monster . |
| 2 | But in April 1956 an unexpected development took place : Khrushchev and Bulganin , the Soviet leaders , visited Britain accompanied by the physicist Igor V. Kurchatov , Director of the Institute of Atomic Energy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences , who looked like a bearded patriarch . |
| 3 | This time Fred was playing a small soberly-dressed man who looked like a civil servant . |
| 4 | Rock was a roly-poly detective who looked like a no-hoper but who always outwitted the opposition with sly brilliance . |
| 5 | On one wall was a portrait of a man who looked like a young Gary Cooper , hair waved and slicked back , jaw jutting in heroic pose . |
| 6 | There was also an infermiere , a male nurse , named Luigi who looked like a retired boxer . |
| 7 | Tallboy was confronted by a very tall man of considerable girth who looked like a retired all-in wrestler . |
| 8 | A helicopter was sent for him and shortly afterwards it clattered down on the tarmac , Bakhtiar , a thin , nervous but very elegant man who looked like a French aristocrat , with a trim moustache and superbly cut clothes , entered the pavilion and bowed before the king . |
| 9 | Our greeter , who looked like a presidential bodyguard , led us through the lobby and into the executive screening parlour — a six-seater with an air of luxury interrogations , one-way mirrors , corporation propaganda . |
| 10 | The one who turned up to preside over my fiscal destruction was particularly dismal , a desolately unattractive woman in a pink cardie who looked like a sitting duck for household cleanser advertisements . |