Example sentences of "that she [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ever not ? ’ he asked with such assumed innocence that she felt like screaming . |
| 2 | I just told her that she looked like everyone else , although I 'm sure that was n't what she wanted to hear . |
| 3 | Charles had time to register that she looked like a dinky toilet-roll cover before his head caught up with him . |
| 4 | She put the hairbrush down and began to pull hideous faces in the glass , pulling the corners of her eyes down with her forefingers and squashing her nose up with her thumbs so that she looked like an insane pug dog . |
| 5 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 6 | You had the feeling , when you pictured her , that she looked like a boy more than a woman . |
| 7 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 8 | One advantage of the no-choice system is that Vaughan can write her menu late in the afternoon , around the dishes that she feels like cooking on the day , with the best ingredients available to her . |
| 9 | People tell me that she looks like me : elegant while concealing an active disposition behind a refined behaviour . |
| 10 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 11 | Phyllisia too , rejected Edith , her only friend , like her father would have done if he saw that she dressed like a ‘ Ragamuffin ’ . |
| 12 | She agreed energetically with me that she writes like Galsworthy . |