Example sentences of "she [vb past] like a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She had n't realised how tense she was until she heard that he was all right , but now she crumpled like a wet paper bag , laughing and crying and laughing again all at once , while Mick hugged her and passed her tissues . |
| 2 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 3 | I felt safe — she seemed like a demure young woman . |
| 4 | She started like a frightened cat , and looked up at him wide-eyed . |
| 5 | She rolled off the bed and excused herself , and as she wandered naked towards the bathroom she waved like a besotted lover . |
| 6 | He knew his gaze was avid , and she blushed like a young girl and lowered her eyes . |
| 7 | She looked like a small animal that expected to be surprised at any moment . |
| 8 | ‘ She looked like a committed townee to me . ’ |
| 9 | She says that I said she looked like a bloody parrot . |
| 10 | She looked like a good cunt . |
| 11 | In her white nightdress she looked like a golden angel . |
| 12 | With her long hair drooping round her face and her large , mournful eyes , she looked like a lost basset-hound puppy . |
| 13 | Standing there in her denims and her cotton T-shirt , she looked like a lost , lonely child . |
| 14 | She looked like a tall little girl . |
| 15 | She was wonderfully , miraculously improved , in fact she looked like a normal animal . |
| 16 | At night , lit from within , she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 18 | She looked like a Spanish gypsy — exotic , vivid , volatile . |
| 19 | She looked like a leathery caricature of the old woman she might have become . |
| 20 | She ate so many she looked like a prickly pincushion . |
| 21 | She looked like a sleek , tawny cat about to pounce on its prey . |
| 22 | In the flying dust she looked like a frost-shocked tree . |
| 23 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 24 | She looked like a discarded puppet . |
| 25 | She looked like a quiet , gentle young woman , I thought . |
| 26 | She looked like a white rock ; a pillar from Stonehenge , fallen . |
| 27 | She looked like a different person . |
| 28 | Coupled with her dark brown hair and high cheekbones , she looked like a miniature woman . |
| 29 | Fernando had adored the way she dressed in Seville , said she looked like a stunning sexy witch in the black she favoured so much … |
| 30 | ‘ She looked like a little Biafran with these spindly arms and legs and this big , distended stomach . |