Example sentences of "[pron] was like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This used to be a wonderful scree running down to Mosedale , which was like gliding down an escalator . |
| 2 | She 'd have to give this … person … something or it would spoil Sam 's holiday — which was like saying it would spoil his entire year . |
| 3 | She grew up with eight brothers , ’ which was like having nine fathers really , including my real father They were so bossy ’ . |
| 4 | Ah 'll tell you she was like dyin' — that pumpin' job had n't done no good at all . |
| 5 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 6 | Making love to you was like making love to a flame . |
| 7 | She told him that the Bible indicated that thinking something was like doing it . |
| 8 | Making the Qiblatain Mosque there was like working in the Vatican or an active Mont St Michael or Chartres . |
| 9 | Arguing with him was like trying to wade through treacle — impossible ! |
| 10 | Lying with him was like discovering a miracle . |
| 11 | Being with him was like shading under a massive tree with deep roots , during a long hot summer and I shall always cherish that time . |
| 12 | Contemplating the others who might have shared this infinity of delight with him was like probing an open wound . |
| 13 | Talking to her was like hacking a way through a jungle . |
| 14 | Meeting Sien for the first time and getting to know her was like knowing ‘ a fellow creature as lonesome and unhappy as myself ’ , no more and no less . |
| 15 | It was like counting down to an explosion . |
| 16 | It was like phoning from the middle of a public toilet . ’ |
| 17 | It was like bathing in hot syrup . ’ |
| 18 | It was like wandering in the lair of giant ants — or something . |
| 19 | It was like smoking a bonfire rolled up in lavatory paper . |
| 20 | So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus . |
| 21 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |
| 22 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 23 | When the surf was flat , it was like listening to BBC Radio cricket commentators when rain stops play : the lack of action is balanced by a surplus of reminiscence . |
| 24 | It was like listening to a gale . |
| 25 | It was like listening to a voice whispering across time , an eerie sensation that became a frisson when I read : Time was , Time is , and Time shall be , but here the Adept stands outside of time within the penetralium of mystery . |
| 26 | He watched her without comment , and when she began to undress him , it was like undressing a baby . |
| 27 | It was like ordering in ; which I guess it was . |
| 28 | It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again , this time from above the water , rather than underneath it . |
| 29 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 30 | It was like discovering you have a disease ; something permanent but liveable-with , like diabetes . |