Example sentences of "that i [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 ! |