Example sentences of "[pron] was like [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms closed round her momentarily , and the feel of rough , male clothing against her was like being back with Isaac . |
| 2 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 3 | It was like being in a supermarket during late-night shopping , with that overpowering sensation that you are losing your space . |
| 4 | But , as we can now see , it was like being a science fiction writer really . |
| 5 | It was like being given an ice-cube when you needed hot soup . |
| 6 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 7 | It was like being a naughty seaside postcard . |
| 8 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 9 | It was like being bathed in honey . |
| 10 | It was like being sick : she loathed herself , but there was an awful relief in doing it . |
| 11 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 12 | At eleven the earth was dry and thirsty , the field baking : it was like being fired in a kiln . |
| 13 | It was like being caught ‘ talking in the dorm . ’ |
| 14 | It was like being an undergraduate a year without having been drunk . |
| 15 | It was like being at the source of the lightning . |
| 16 | It was like being inside a tomb . |
| 17 | It was like being shot at by a sag-bag . |
| 18 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 19 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 20 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 21 | In some ways , it was like being 16 again . |
| 22 | It was like being in the Twilight zone . ’ |
| 23 | It was like being at the edge of the world . |
| 24 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |
| 25 | It was like being on a ship , but a steady , secure and snugly protective ship . |
| 26 | All Joe 's life he 'd been asked what it was like being Jerry Lewis 's kid and his answer was always : ‘ It 's great , he 's great ’ . |
| 27 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 28 | It was like being back at Goose Green . |
| 29 | ‘ It was like being in a car and hitting a brick wall . |
| 30 | But when I became spokesman in opposition myself and he was the Foreign Secretary and we were sparring partners again , I made a nice remark about him and he said it was like being nuzzled by an old ram . |