Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [be] like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |
| 2 | It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed . |
| 3 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 4 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 5 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 6 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |