Example sentences of "she [verb] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say she goes like a stoat too , ’ I said loudly . |
| 2 | Tiny though she was compared with her assailant , she fought like a wildcat . |
| 3 | She expanded like a plant turned to the sun ; she flourished and was gay . |
| 4 | She drinks like a horse ! |
| 5 | She laughs like a horse . |
| 6 | ‘ Why are you hiding in the cupboard , Finn ? ’ she asked like a mother to an inexplicable child at the end of a hard day . |
| 7 | She moved like a sleep-walker , her heart shipwrecked within her . |
| 8 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 9 | She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head . |
| 10 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |
| 11 | Under the harsh highlights , she looks like a road-crash victim , stretched out on the tarmac , blonde hair fanning around her . |
| 12 | She looks like a double helping of pink blancmange , and about as exciting . |
| 13 | She looks like a Jewess , thought Fedorov . |
| 14 | Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’ |
| 15 | When she looked Masklin up and down he caught her eye and thought : she looks like a little old lady , but she 's in charge . |
| 16 | She looks like a hooker . ’ |
| 17 | ’ She looks like a Scripture mistress out to grass . ’ |
| 18 | Without benefit of make-up and designer clothes , she looks like a twelve-year-old boy , the way most models do : fresh-faced , scrubbed , clean-limbed . |
| 19 | She looks like a farmer 's wife . ’ |
| 20 | She looks like a mum to Babur . |
| 21 | She looks like a particularly stupid tortoise . |
| 22 | Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool . |
| 23 | At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy . |
| 24 | There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness . |
| 25 | Look at Annabel she looks like a little snow baby , darling ! |
| 26 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 27 | She looks like a stupid bitch too ! |
| 28 | She looks like a geezer . |
| 29 | So the girl is in on this , the artist and he goes off to meet this er bride-to-be at the airport and she comes in , perfectly , she looks like a model off of , off of Vogue , he practically drops dead of course . |
| 30 | She looks like a bloody dog . |