Example sentences of "[that] it was like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other girl in contrast to both Jenny and Sheila was so heavily made up that it was like looking at someone behind a mask . |
| 2 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 3 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 4 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 5 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 6 | ‘ We were all so close , ’ Peter Rogers told me , ‘ that it was like talking about members of our own family , especially Ken . |
| 7 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |