Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been haggling like a nomad , while they , dressed like English salesmen , were ready to pay without question . |
| 2 | I 've been thinking like a crook . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been treated like a pin-cushion , but it seems to be working so far , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 5 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 6 | You 've been behaving like a commodity broker on Black Thursday , have n't you ? |
| 7 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been slaving like a scullery maid . ’ |
| 10 | The story of the RC — which will be given in more detail in another chapter — has still not been fully told , mainly because the documentation on it has been treated like the Crown Jewels . |
| 11 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 12 | Her grey hair had a dusty look , as though it had been powdered like a flunkey 's wig . |
| 13 | It looked as though it had been woven like the baskets which were used to collect tea from the old plantations . |
| 14 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 15 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |