Example sentences of "it [is] like [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , with Prince , it 's like watching someone else watching himself masturbate in a mirror . |
| 2 | It 's like living your life all over again . ’ |
| 3 | It 's a question that their parents may also be unable to answer , so it 's important that students be given some idea of what it 's like to earn one 's living creatively as early as possible , and so help dispel some of the fear and disbelief that discussions about this ‘ odd ’ way of working always seem to produce . |
| 4 | It 's like seeing myself in the shadows there , all choked up . |
| 5 | Imagine what 's it 's like to tackle him . ’ |
| 6 | It 's like caressing something sacred . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like telling him there 's no Father Christmas , ’ she sniffed . |
| 8 | It 's like banging your head against a brick wall . |
| 9 | You do n't know what it 's like wondering what the hell he 's up to now and where he 's gone and when he 'll be back . |
| 10 | It 's like putting your diary on show . |
| 11 | ‘ Sometimes when I take him to the local toddler group and watch him playing with the other children , I think it would be great if he could just feel the sand in the sandpit between his toes and know what it 's like to get his hands all messed up with play dough or paint — the things other children take for granted . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like asking me to part with my heart , ’ replied Harold , half-meaning it , ‘ but since you ask me , I shall count it an honour , my dear . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't know , it 's like asking me how hell compares with heaven , it 's just absurd ! |
| 14 | ‘ If I select an object it 's like hitting it . |
| 15 | Finance director Colin Stone , 44 , said : ‘ We can remember what it 's like to have nothing . |
| 16 | There were also the traditional complaints that condoms lessen sensitivity : ‘ It 's like washing your feet with your socks on , ’ said a married 43-year-old credit controller . |
| 17 | Louise Jermy 's health was permanently impaired by the long hours she spent helping her mother mangle clothes , and Kathleen Woodward recalled her mother 's bitter complaints about washing : ‘ Wash wash wash ; it 's like washing your guts away . |
| 18 | You never even set fire to a man on the ground , so you do n't know what it 's like to burn one . ’ |
| 19 | Do you realise what it 's like having something like this hanging over your head ? ’ |
| 20 | " You kill a priest , " Sam muttered as they rowed away , " it 's like killing your own father . " |
| 21 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 22 | It 's like saying there 's a building that 's worth something and here 's a person that 's worth something , so live up to it , rather than putting people into a cramped space they 're used to . |
| 23 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 24 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 25 | I am ecstatic about this , it is like winning my first cap not my 23rd . ’ |
| 26 | The Seattle Seahawks know what it is like following their game in October . |
| 27 | Doyle 's greyhound is a pair of electricians ' pipes , which he lights upon , paints and plays , producing a doleful sound that soothes him — it is like mumbling your mantra or telling your beads . |
| 28 | However , we all know what it is like to start something entirely new and to be told at the beginning that rows of holes have to be followed by two knit rows and then , when it all seems to be going well , to discover that there are two transferring rows one after the other , sounding like a contradiction in terms . |
| 29 | It is like letting your Aunt Violet go on the airwaves . |