Example sentences of "it was [prep] being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like being at the source of the lightning . |
| 2 | It was like being at the edge of the world . |
| 3 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 4 | It was like being at primary school again . |
| 5 | It was like being on a ship , but a steady , secure and snugly protective ship . |
| 6 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 7 | It was like being on stage in a spotlight , which revealed every minor action and reaction . |
| 8 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 9 | It was like being in a supermarket during late-night shopping , with that overpowering sensation that you are losing your space . |
| 10 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 11 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 12 | It was like being in the Twilight zone . ’ |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | ‘ It was like being in a car and hitting a brick wall . |
| 15 | For a moment , it was like being in hell . |
| 16 | Flames seethed along each crack in its wall , and for Ruth , standing on the circular floor , it was like being in the middle of a fire — an icy , silent fire . |
| 17 | It was like being in a straightjacket . |
| 18 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 19 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 20 | It was like being in the room with Miss Trimm yet again confiding that she 'd mothered another Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | It was like being in the entrails of a glacier . |
| 22 | It was like being in a minefield . |
| 23 | It was like being in a sort of ghost theatre and it was terribly forlorn . |
| 24 | It was like being among the dead men in an enormous empty green cathedral . |
| 25 | It was like being inside a tomb . |
| 26 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |