Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 2 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 3 | this is not to suggest that I function like a computer ( which would be anathema to me ) , for there is always something to react to , something new to learn , or to improve . |
| 4 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 5 | The moon rose high in the sky and shone unfalteringly into the woods , a silver goddess that I felt like worshipping . |
| 6 | This oath of secrecy I found so oppressive at first that I felt like the barber in the Greek myth who had to dig a hole in the ground and whisper , ‘ Midas has asses ' ears ! ’ |
| 7 | And he spoke to me so kindly , and with such innocent enthusiasm , that I felt like saying to Jamila , Hey , he 's not so bad ! |
| 8 | I fumbled Lewis 's key into the ignition , the gauntlets handicapping my fingers and adding to the impression that I felt like a spaceman dropped into molasses for gravity training . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 10 | In the meantime I must live with the fact that I sweat like a Sun reader at a philosophy lecture every time my wheels crunch over someone else 's gravel . |
| 11 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
| 12 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
| 13 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 14 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 15 | ‘ Why ever not ? ’ he asked with such assumed innocence that she felt like screaming . |
| 16 | I just told her that she looked like everyone else , although I 'm sure that was n't what she wanted to hear . |
| 17 | Charles had time to register that she looked like a dinky toilet-roll cover before his head caught up with him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 20 | You had the feeling , when you pictured her , that she looked like a boy more than a woman . |
| 21 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | People tell me that she looks like me : elegant while concealing an active disposition behind a refined behaviour . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Phyllisia too , rejected Edith , her only friend , like her father would have done if he saw that she dressed like a ‘ Ragamuffin ’ . |
| 26 | She agreed energetically with me that she writes like Galsworthy . |
| 27 | ‘ He said that you looked like a little ghost , and tried not to mention my name . |
| 28 | Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ? |
| 29 | new American one that you hold like that , and you just go , swi swi |
| 30 | that you use like the chemist . |