Example sentences of "you [verb] like a " in BNC.

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1 Ye eat like a wolf .
2 Ye mean like a debt ? ’
3 I said what you mean like a brothel charge ?
4 You mean like a cook , or like a waitress ? ’
5 Right , you mean like a home income scheme ?
6 You mean like a soldier 's salute , sir ? ’
7 you mean like a slip road ?
8 You eat like a sparrow , ’ he said , when I declined more than nine oysters .
9 ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night .
10 You sit like a pair of toads , ’ said Franca .
11 Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ?
12 You dropped like a felled ox . ’
13 The walking is seldom demanding , though the many stiles and gates in the heavily farmed country will make you feel like a steeplechaser at times .
14 Should you feel like a glass of — er — sherry in the course of the evening , by all means come and pour yourself one ! ’
15 Do n't you feel like a second-class citizen ? ’
16 D' you feel like a shopping trip to New York ?
17 Makes you feel like a murderer sometimes this job do n't it ?
18 It makes you feel like a second class citizen to be disabled .
19 So if we get there early enough do you feel like a Wimpy ?
20 What did you , did you do like a meal like chicken with potatoes and blaa , blaa , blaa , or did you just miss the foods .
21 ( Ironic , you smoke like a chimney and the lungs are O.K. )
22 You imagine like a penguin suit , are n't the wings ?
23 ‘ I 'm not having you acting like a kid this evening .
24 You are a natural for taking on positions of power and authority but sometimes you act like a domestic Goat instead of the mountain variety and allow yourself to become tethered to some safe little post .
25 You speak like a lady , everyone says so , and your uncle at Weatherbury has a large farm , I 've heard .
26 ‘ Yesterday morning , during break , you sneaked like a serpent into the kitchen and stole a slice of my private chocolate cake from my tea-tray !
27 Do you remind me of other people I like or dislike ? ( i.e. do you look like a schoolteacher I disliked ? )
28 ‘ Should make you look like a lady , ’ said Joe .
29 ‘ It makes you look like a sheep , ’ she observed coldly , but even this seemed not to offend him .
30 She was struck by his energy , she said , the vigour of his point of view , his grown-upness — he makes you look like a boy still , she had said to Davide , mocking him with the sharpness she was showing all of a sudden .
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