Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] [vb past] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 2 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 3 | As he waited for delivery , he started to mutter to himself in what sounded like a Gloucestershire accent . |
| 4 | In any case , none of us felt like sleep . |
| 5 | She treated herself with what seemed like utter severity . |
| 6 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 7 | Julius stared at her for what seemed like an extraordinarily long time . |
| 8 | She in return regarded him with what looked like admiration . |
| 9 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 10 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 11 | A piece of rope was tied to it but the knot was difficult to undo and , after fiddling with it for what felt like hours , he still could n't pry it loose . |
| 12 | I supposed that I ought to have brought the Ghost down too , but the priority had been to save myself from what seemed like imminent electrocution . |