Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] like [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when one of my girls had an abortion , I was like a maniac for days after . |
| 2 | Says Wire : ‘ When we started out , I was like a kid in a candy store . |
| 3 | I was like a kid in a toy shop . |
| 4 | the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need , that I was like a child in his hands . |
| 5 | I was like a man in the street who was trying to talk to another man at the top of a very tall building . |
| 6 | I was like a Lilliputian in Europe , and I began to understand how a very small creature feels . |
| 7 | They said I was like a piece of steel … ’ |
| 8 | Once she heard the sound of the Holy Ghost , which was like a pair of bellows in her ear , though it later turned into the sound of a dove , then of a robin that sang only in her right ear . |
| 9 | They had to adapt their movements to cover a larger space which was like a box with one side only being open to public gaze . |
| 10 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 11 | She was like a mum to me — the best woman in my life . |
| 12 | Where Roman Wyatt was concerned she was like a snail without a shell . |
| 13 | No , she was like a child to me . |
| 14 | She was like a cube of chrome , sleek and symmetrical . |
| 15 | She was like a ghost at the table , a shy shadow , watching her brother and pleating her apron with nervous , red fingers . |
| 16 | She was like a needle in long grass , a knife in fog . |
| 17 | yeah , and er , well anyway she down , she was like a model at the end |
| 18 | She was like a dog with a bone |
| 19 | Thanks to him , she was like a boat without a rudder , drifting aimlessly in a river , letting its currents take her wherever they wanted . |
| 20 | She was like a figure in a dream that he could not quite recall . |
| 21 | She was like a shadow within shadows . |
| 22 | She knew she was like a bitch on heat . |
| 23 | She was like a bitch on heat . |
| 24 | ‘ She was like a mother to me . |
| 25 | And the answer came : she was like a break in the monotony , like a resident jester . |
| 26 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
| 27 | She was like an embodiment of the Conventional Rules of Duty . |
| 28 | It was Justine , the young woman who looked after the children and who was like a sister to us . |
| 29 | He grinned and she felt her spirits rise as she looked with affection at this man who was like a brother to her . |
| 30 | " You know you 're doing wrong , " said the team leader who was like a bear with a sore head for the rest of the morning . |