Example sentences of "like [v-ing] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at the bottom of that big drop , it was like crashing through the seat into the ground . |
| 2 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 3 | Even on a fine day , the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel . |
| 4 | Quite simply , having no formulated statement is like walking through your own minefield without the benefit of a map of where the mines were laid . |
| 5 | It was like walking through porridge . |
| 6 | I imagine that it was a bit like driving through a minefield in the war , the fact that we did not hit anybody was a miracle in itself ! |
| 7 | It feels like passing through a political demonstration . |
| 8 | Just because it 's me — ’ Her vision was impaired by the gruesome beauty aids , like looking through prison bars , and she picked at them irritably . |
| 9 | It is like looking through a magic window into the real world of natural irradiation . |
| 10 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's like looking through the wrong end of a telescope . ’ |
| 12 | It is like looking through your camera . |
| 13 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 14 | But there was no bottom : it was like going through the Star Gate , with whole galaxies reeling by me . |
| 15 | When I wiped out , it felt like going through a car-wash without a car . |
| 16 | ‘ The interesting thing about prison is that it 's a bit like going through the Blitz during the war , ’ she says . |
| 17 | The storm lasted five days , and to ride over Orkney after that was like riding through a great field the day after beggars had left it . |
| 18 | Long hours of physical exploration/emotional connection so deep like moving through layers of sea . |
| 19 | It is like moving through a black and white film . |
| 20 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 21 | Swimming through a jellyfish-infested sea is like advancing through a minefield . |
| 22 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 23 | It 's like sailing through a maze . |
| 24 | Sick with fear , she watched helplessly as , at a shouted signal , the three rushed at fitzAlan in a concerted attack that looked like succeeding through sheer weight of numbers . |
| 25 | Indeed reading through their curricula vitae is like reading through a history of the past quarter century of popular music in this country . |
| 26 | Such knowing like reaching through deep snow to the land beneath . |
| 27 | Fire chief Chris Large said : ‘ It was like digging through sand . |
| 28 | It was like rummaging through someone else 's dreams . |