Example sentences of "she felt like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt like every adagio ever written . |
| 2 | She felt like a fool . |
| 3 | She felt like a prisoner . |
| 4 | She did The Old Man and the Seal with ease , acting old , acting a big man and swimming the breast-stroke in the air , and they got it almost immediately and then she flopped on to Conrad 's knee and he laid his wine-filled head on her breast and somebody wiped a smear of black kohl from her cheek and she felt like a child again and thought of how Gabriel had nursed his little girl to sleep when she had been tired and fading away . |
| 5 | She felt like a child at the scene of an accident who knows nothing except that flesh was not made to be torn . |
| 6 | Left alone , consumed with yet more guilt , she felt like a character in a second-rate detective film . |
| 7 | She talks to Penny Fox ‘ She felt like a cuckoo in the nest . |
| 8 | During much of that time she had been moving constantly , school friends , teachers and happy times discarded until she felt like a fugitive . |
| 9 | It was just that after a weekend of weeping over Cameron , and two absolutely hectic days at the office with Helena now also down with chicken-pox , she felt like a bit of glamour . |
| 10 | Her feet tapped loudly on the curving stone steps and for a moment she felt like a bit-player descending to the dungeons — with horror , and a stack of movie cameras , lying ahead . |
| 11 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 12 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
| 13 | She felt like a tightrope-walker without a net . |
| 14 | She felt like a peasant . |
| 15 | He guided her every step of the way , and for the first time since she 'd joined C 's Circus she felt like a woman being seduced . |
| 16 | She felt like a being whose body was no longer at her own bidding ; the pains had stopped , then began again . |
| 17 | She felt like a tightrope walker suffering an attack of vertigo , terrified she was going to topple . |
| 18 | Standing there naked , her legs wide apart to display her femininity , she felt like a model in a porn show . |
| 19 | She felt like a convalescent after a long and dangerous illness , her strength returning , her enthusiasm for life rekindled . |
| 20 | She felt like a cork tossed on the swirl and eddy of her own thoughts . |
| 21 | She felt like a mother whose sons kept dying in overseas wars . |
| 22 | Walking forward , face scarlet , legs turned to jelly and arms stiff and awkward , she felt like a marionette , but by the time she had shown the third model , ‘ Wicked Lady ’ , she had begun almost to enjoy herself . |
| 23 | Halfway there and she felt like a break . |
| 24 | Camille felt intimidated and envious : she thought the girls did n't like the look of her and suspected she was after their jobs , and she felt like an interloper . |
| 25 | Tears again , she felt like the child she had been when her father gave wild stinging slaps to her legs by way of welcome after she 'd run away from home . |