Example sentences of "[adj] it [was/were] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 2 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 3 | Bernadette added : ‘ When I saw Farrah lying there safe it was like giving birth all over again . |
| 4 | John 's tears were so enormous it was like trying to stem a leak in the plumbing . |
| 5 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 6 | STILL champ — but deep down Chris Eubank knows how close it was against punching postman Tony Thornton |
| 7 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting , ’ said Courier , ‘ but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |