Example sentences of "i [vb base] like [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I smell like a major operation .
2 ‘ But will my lady allow me to share her bed tonight if I smell like an unwashed ram ? ’
3 er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really !
4 I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins .
5 I look like a demented barber .
6 BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister .
7 'You want to make sure I look like the guilty party if anything goes wrong .
8 I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man .
9 I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’
10 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 . ’
11 ‘ Miss Greene — I know I sound like a deuced newspaper reporter … ’
12 Sorry I sound like a right right one but it does .
13 I sound like a nagging father .
14 I sound like a soppy young kid , do n't I ?
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I feel like a new girl . ’
18 I feel like a long hike somewhere or other . ’
19 Just now I feel like a long cool drink and a large Knickerbocker Glory ! ’
20 and she says oh , he said oh yeah I feel really miserable today , I feel like a right lesbian !
21 I feel like a real slut !
22 I feel like a dying night bird .
23 I feel like a drowned rat as well .
24 I feel like a damn old woman .
25 I feel like a warmed Up corpse , but I wanted to get to you before the police thought of it .
26 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 .
27 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 … .
28 I feel like a whole person again .
29 I feel like a whipped dog , ’ he said , in a rare moment of candour about his condition .
30 I feel like a naughty schoolkid who 's standing in front of the headmaster .
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