Example sentences of "like a [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Selwyn jumped out of the sidecar like a five year old . |
| 2 | We had real cowboys teaching us how to use a gun although I 've never felt the need to carry a gun um , I felt like a five year old with a pistol . |
| 3 | Yeah , I ca n't even think of any nurses at the hospital , Louise her little one 's three but she 's more like a five year old |
| 4 | Look at you — a few sneezes and she pops you into bed like a six year old . " |
| 5 | But mum said like she 's she 's divorced so sh , she 's forty she 's got like a six year old kid and the kid is really brainy ! |
| 6 | ‘ Stop behaving like a two year old . |
| 7 | It was so easy to flatter her , she took it like a sixteen year old wino 's never heard it before . |
| 8 | My head is banging like a twenty year old car engine . ’ |
| 9 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 10 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 11 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 12 | My Dad shouted , ‘ Go up to your room and do n't come back until you have forgotten about Game Boys and can talk to us more like a seven year old . ’ |