Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just felt like a bit of a change , that 's all . ’ |
| 2 | I just felt like a drink . |
| 3 | No I just sound like a bloke . |
| 4 | I still feel like a newcomer . |
| 5 | Each night I really slept like a log . |
| 6 | And by then I definitely felt like a bit of relaxation I 'd earned it . |
| 7 | which always sounds like a question . |
| 8 | In the same × 7 field , outside the ‘ bowl ’ in the direction of Eta , is 27 Cygni ( NGC 6871 ) , a very sparse , loose cluster which hardly looks like a cluster at all with low magnifications , though with × 20 the grouping is fairly evident . |
| 9 | These are known as organic chemicals — which probably sounds like a contradiction in terms to anyone who buys ‘ organic ’ vegetables ! |
| 10 | A typical exhibit , Thomas Kapielsky 's witty ‘ Käseplatte ’ is an object the size and shape of a record ( platte ) which also looks like a section of a round cheese ( Käse ) ; but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun ( while ‘ Käseplatte ’ is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant , ‘ Käse ’ is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art … ) . |
| 11 | Hope walked rapidly from the outlying church towards Keswick which now seemed like a net , dropped on him when he was unaware , leaving him pinioned … |
| 12 | THIS is the flowering of our civilization , not Monet 's waterlilies , which now seem like a remnant of a prehistoric way of thinking . |
| 13 | Compared to me , who just wailed like a baby . |
| 14 | ‘ You just collapsed like a chimney stack . |
| 15 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 16 | She always looks like a sack of spuds she does |
| 17 | From Heinrich 's point of view , you hardly look like a mother at all . " |
| 18 | She still looked like a child . |
| 19 | Have you ever felt like a Tennis Ball ? |
| 20 | ‘ Do you really feel like a bit of sightseeing , then ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 're so perfect … you even colour like a rose every time I look at you . ’ |
| 22 | but , er , you look at it like this then , if we did n't crawl out of the sea and er evolve then did we just appear like a flash of lighting |
| 23 | Before any girls get excited at the prospect of all these crotch-obsessed men packing out Glencoe bars , and rush off to join a climbing club , I should point out they also smell like a circus tarpaulin and regard ten pints of Guinness as an aperitif . |
| 24 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 26 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 27 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 28 | ‘ It just seems like a waste . |
| 29 | It just means like a person could |
| 30 | ‘ It just looks like a scrap of old cloth or parchment or something , ’ said Tina . |