Example sentences of "i [verb] like [art] [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 | I smell like a major operation . |
| 3 | ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’ |
| 4 | And when I did I behaved like a damned fool . |
| 5 | I muttered like a fractious housewife . |
| 6 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 7 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 8 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 10 | 'You want to make sure I look like the guilty party if anything goes wrong . |
| 11 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 12 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 14 | ‘ Come on , Wyatt Earp ’ she said , ‘ do I look like a hog-tied sheep to you ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’ |
| 17 | Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does . |
| 18 | I sound like a nagging father . |
| 19 | I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I noted last week , while I hung like the average orang-outang from a strap in a train on the London underground , gazing about at travellers ' knitteds , that many of them had cuffs rolled up . |
| 22 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Good evening , ’ he said , as I scuttled like a giant shaved rodent into the furthest corner of the caravan . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I feel like a new girl . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’ |
| 28 | Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’ |
| 29 | and she says oh , he said oh yeah I feel really miserable today , I feel like a right lesbian ! |
| 30 | I feel like a real slut ! |