Example sentences of "she [vb past] [be] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 2 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 3 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 4 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |
| 5 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |