Example sentences of "[was/were] like [be] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A description of what it was like being a female secretary in a male-dominated office received much attention , and much fury and hilarity when it was realized that the office being described was that of the New Left Review . |
| 2 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 3 | It was like being a naughty seaside postcard . |
| 4 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 5 | Anne Scott wrote her first piece — on contraception — and a woman whom Rowbotham had met wrote a description of what it was like being an unmarried mother . |