Example sentences of "he [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became like a male ballet dancer — a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes . |
| 2 | Christmas Eve and in he come said he got the , I , he do n't recognise , they do n't recognise him , he got like a black he says Ho , Ho , are you all behaving yourselves , Victoria sitting there giving it yeah |
| 3 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 4 | He howled like a wild animal , and hit his forehead several times against a tree , until the wood was covered in blood . |
| 5 | The man smiled , his smooth dark face creasing in a grin , lips parted to reveal ivory white teeth as he gestured like a long-lost friend for Corbett to enter . |
| 6 | I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’ |
| 7 | He says that he seemed like a nice chap . |
| 8 | I 'd met Laura 's husband only for a minute or two , but he seemed like a regular guy . |
| 9 | He seemed like a different person , much older , worn and harried . |
| 10 | He drove like a complete madman to the hospital . ’ |
| 11 | Far from letting go , he wrestled like a mad thing , kicking out with his boots and laughing like a maniac when the branch flicked across her throat and drew blood . |
| 12 | He danced like a bloody elephant ! |
| 13 | His name was Tuan Ti Fo and , though he squatted like a young man , his muscles uncomplaining under him , he was as old as the great City itself . |
| 14 | Bitterly disappointed , he later complained he felt like a Spanish general without a horse . |
| 15 | More importantly , he felt like a great sponge waiting to be filled . |
| 16 | Plain as a pikestaff , really , even prominent front teeth ; yet , he had been unbearable until he got her ; and now , as Jim himself said , he felt like a lame dog who had found a wonderful home . |
| 17 | He felt like a pursued husband , though not like any husband that he had ever been himself . |
| 18 | He felt like a kept man . |
| 19 | Sometimes he felt like a middle-aged man trapped inside a young man 's body . |
| 20 | He felt like a little boy suddenly told by his mother to share an afternoon at the cinema with another child . |
| 21 | ‘ He sang like a little bird , once he knew the Admiral had already talked to us . ’ |
| 22 | " What you want ? " he growled like a hurt child . |
| 23 | He looked like a broiled frog , hunched over his desk , grinning and satisfied . |
| 24 | But he came back three days later crying his eyes out and begging me to forgive him , he looked like a helpless puppy . |
| 25 | He looked like a half-starved bum yet he was evidently a man who had known better times . |
| 26 | At first glance , Cowley thought , he looked like a retired accountant . |
| 27 | With his huge rough hands and a large red nose , he looked like a rebellious peasant from Doctor Zhivago — and compared to the four veterans of the Afghan campaign in the next compartment he was a veritable teetotaller . |
| 28 | Jodami had never been cantered but he looked like a strong old fashioned chaser , ’ said the trainer . |
| 29 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 30 | He looked like a fresh-faced schoolboy and introduced himself to Charlie as one might do to a casual acquaintance at a cocktail party . |