Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also pages of poems forced into some sort of rhyming structure so that they might conceivably have worked as songs , several paragraphs of references to critical works ( Barthes , especially ; Death of the Author ! shouted what looked like a headline over one entire page of notes devoted to ideas about a looseleaf novel/poem ? ? |
| 2 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 3 | Kuala Lumpur acquired at the beginning of the century one of the most spectacular stations in Asia , where building and train-shed were conceived as one architectural whole and the trains entered what seemed like a cross between an extravagant Oriental palace and a mosque . |
| 4 | First , as the whole island trembled like jelly , from way beneath us came what sounded like a giant rustling great sheets of brown wrapping-paper . |
| 5 | At the very bottom , her fingers touched what felt like a photograph . |
| 6 | They heard what sounded like a blow . |
| 7 | I thought you meant I looked like a side of beef . |
| 8 | Everywhere she went she worked like a trooper and her wonderful smile let you know she was enjoying everything she did . |
| 9 | The stage hands thought she looked like a vulture waiting to pounce and would mutter that the old girl was on the sidelines again . |
| 10 | In her new dress , a fitted emerald green sparkly affair with huge padded shoulders , George thought she looked like a cross between a Christmas tree and an American footballer . |
| 11 | Souness , who reported that the latest injuries to hit the club were not too serious , added : ‘ It was difficult to entertain in that wind , but I thought we played like a team at times tonight . ’ |
| 12 | I noticed it , I thought it looked like a rash |
| 13 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 14 | From one of his pouches he took what looked like a package of grey plasticine . |
| 15 | ‘ After getting out of the cab , I looked round and saw what looked like a car upside down on fire . |
| 16 | He produced what looked like a bunch of keys and very quickly had the door open but he did n't go in immediately . |
| 17 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 18 | Shelley said , kissing the top of his head between words , ‘ Constance said you looked like a man who needed a son . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You said you felt like a teenager when you kissed me . ’ |
| 20 | One just heard a whistle , one said it sounded like a hymn and the third , who was a church woman , claimed she could identify it precisely , ‘ Now the Day is Over' ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Bas said it looked like a tart 's bedroom , ’ said Dancer cheerfully . |
| 22 | He said he felt like a king . |
| 23 | Police said he acted like a lager lout and hit an officer . |
| 24 | His family said he acted like a Saint . |
| 25 | Several years ago a man working the beach not far from Happisburgh spotted what looked like a hunk of dull yellow glass lying on the sand . |
| 26 | He carried what looked like a bag , bulging with something , over one shoulder . |
| 27 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |