Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boiler was like an upright wooden barrel banded with copper . |
| 2 | I put them on the chairs , here in front of the fire , to dry nut and the kitchen was like a steam-bath all winter . ’ |
| 3 | The tension in the kitchen was like an electric current . |
| 4 | Walking through the Rorim was like living a medieval pageant . |
| 5 | The building was like a hotel . |
| 6 | Hot pesto bread sounded good , but the pesto was like mayonnaise . |
| 7 | The noise was like a factory . |
| 8 | The noise was like thunder , painfully loud but somehow indistinct . |
| 9 | And it used to roar , you can imagine what the noise was like in the chapel . |
| 10 | Next door neighbour Susan Hanley told Judge Peter Fox QC the noise was like ‘ a psychological form of torture ’ . |
| 11 | Dr Ting 's proposal for the SSC was like L3 but bigger . |
| 12 | But one local cockle collector said the tension was like ‘ a timebomb ’ . |
| 13 | One local cockle collector said the tension was like a ‘ time-bomb ’ . |
| 14 | It was as if the idea of God in the mind was like a shadow thrown on a wall . |
| 15 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 16 | The canteen was like a thousand others , run by unpaid volunteers and makeshift and bare , but the smile of the elderly helper was as bright as her flowered pinafore . |
| 17 | The future was like the blackness that surrounded her , in which there were n't even shadows . |
| 18 | The snow was like glaucoma . |
| 19 | Inside the walls the monastery was like an enclosed Nile village whose inhabitants had fled its ruinous lanes . |
| 20 | David had a prawn salad sandwich and a cheese and onion sandwich and I 'm not kidding you , the sandwich was like that , they just filled it and it was |
| 21 | The perpetrator was like a phantom or a supernatural being . |
| 22 | The wind was like a blade that just skims the skin . |
| 23 | The wind was like a punishment to the face and hands . |
| 24 | The heat was overpowering , the sun glared out of a dear blue sky , the inside of the car was like an oven . |
| 25 | The car was like a mobile abattoir . |
| 26 | P. S. The superintendent was like God . |
| 27 | Tell me what the club was like when you first took over . ’ |
| 28 | The stars shimmered in their dustless , glittering clouds ; the terrace was like a stage beneath them . |
| 29 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 30 | Even on a fine day , the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel . |