Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Black eyeliner on my lower lids , and I looked like some kind of She-devil . |
| 2 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |
| 3 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 4 | Erm , but we are n't going to the sort of , end of degree , that er , I say this , and then you sort of enter stage left and say this , and I respond like this , and then erm , something else happens , and then somebody comes crashing in through the door . |
| 5 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 6 | So she goes , I want it first thing tomorrow morning , and I mean like this is talking like , we 're talking major here ! |
| 7 | But I stay out there singing some made-up song that goes with the waves crunching on the shingle , so she tosses stones in the water to plop near me in the darkness and I shout like an idiot and run back to the shore . |
| 8 | In our childhood Irina and I fought like cat and dog . |
| 9 | My girlfriend and I laughed like drains . |
| 10 | He led , and I followed like a little sheep . |
| 11 | you know and I says like |
| 12 | Now you may know all about personal allowances or you may think you know all about personal allowances and I thought like that . |
| 13 | And I thought like his mum might not find that really amusing or anything |
| 14 | They fussed around until the doctor left , when everything went deathly quiet , and I slept like a log until morning . |
| 15 | The bed was comfortable and I slept like a top . |
| 16 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 17 | She walks past me into the living room , and I follow like her student nurse . |
| 18 | And I said like this . |
| 19 | So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know . |
| 20 | Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river . |
| 21 | And I went like that |
| 22 | Oh yes she did and I went like this , |
| 23 | Three pairs of eyes focused on me and I felt like the family pet , the Old English sheepdog that 's lost its marbles and joined up with the wolf pack to go worrying innocent lambs . |
| 24 | Everybody was drinking too much and I felt like a Mother Superior at the bottle factory outing . |
| 25 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 26 | In 1972 Tom 's temper had got worse and worse and I felt like packing it in , as we finished seventh at Muirfield , the year Tony Jacklin should have won and Lee Trevino did . |
| 27 | ‘ He just asked me to do it , and I felt like playing live again to keep my chops up . |
| 28 | I was sitting in the make-up chair and I felt like the ugliest piece of shit there ever was . |
| 29 | I was n't happy with myself and I felt like no-one really listened to me or understood me , ’ she revealed . |
| 30 | The urgency of coming out was building and I felt like a firecracker about to go off . |