Example sentences of "[pron] [be] like trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Trying to talk to you is like trying to charge through a brick wall . |
| 2 | Trying to snatch a word with you is like trying to hold on to a fistful of quicksilver . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Getting information from anybody is like trying to extract teeth . ’ |
| 4 | Arguing with him was like trying to wade through treacle — impossible ! |
| 5 | The momentum is there and it 's like trying to change the course of a battleship . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like trying to break into the Kremlin strongbox . ’ |
| 7 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 8 | It 's like trying to turn beef steak rawk into a New Age lentilburger , not by changing the ingredients but simply enveloping it all in a laser-fried wholemeal bun and hoping that nobody will notice the difference . |
| 9 | It 's like trying to peel an onion . |
| 10 | It 's like trying to breathe through a thick chador . ’ |
| 11 | For thirty minutes it is like trying to push a marshmallow into a coinbox . |
| 12 | It is like trying to get a firm grip on a plateful of pudding . |
| 13 | Again , the control layout would bother me because the volume pot for the bridge pickup is the middle of the three , but I think I could get used to it — although at present it is like trying to get used to driving a new car where they 've put the gearstick in the middle of the passenger seat . |
| 14 | It is like trying to ladle out the sea with a sieve . ) |
| 15 | It is like trying to predict the outcome of a game of chess before anyone has made a move . |
| 16 | It is like trying to push on a piece of string : it can not be done . |
| 17 | By this time , we got the impression that the gulf between Walworth Road and Streatham was so great , it was like trying to control unruly hill tribes beyond Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 18 | It was like trying to age an oak . |
| 19 | It was like trying to prepare for an earthquake or a hurricane . |
| 20 | I could n't understand how I could possibly make the individual pine-needles knit ; it was like trying to carry grain in a net , or water in a cloth . |
| 21 | The solid uncooperative bundle was surprisingly heavy ; it was like trying to manoeuvre a firm and rather smelly poultice . |
| 22 | It was like trying to whistle with a sardine in your mouth . |
| 23 | It was like trying to shore up a wall of quicksand . |
| 24 | John 's tears were so enormous it was like trying to stem a leak in the plumbing . |
| 25 | It was like trying to recall a dream . |
| 26 | She and I separated ( it was like trying to unpick a mangled shoelace ) and I staggered through to take the call . |
| 27 | It was like trying to push a fully harnessed plough horse . |
| 28 | She tried to keep the conversation general and without barbs but it was like trying to float a small boat in a treacherous sea . |
| 29 | The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited , as Jill Stanton has mentioned before , and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves . |