Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [is] like [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't rebuild without paying through the nose for the privilege , and even if I did build , getting rent is like getting blood from a stone ! ’ |
| 2 | The religious community sent its messengers on to the set and Burton obliged with such whoppers ( 'playing Marcellus is like playing Hamlet ’ ) that his reputation as an honest interviewee ought to have ended there and then . |
| 3 | Remember that buying software is like buying the emperor 's new clothes . |
| 4 | Doing geology is like playing outdoors with enigmatic jig-saw puzzles : giant puzzles in the two dimensions of the Earth 's surface , the third dimension of a drill hole and the fourth dimension of time . |
| 5 | Indeed , learning science is like learning a catechism . |