Example sentences of "would [verb] been like [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 2 | It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly . |
| 3 | So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ? |
| 4 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 5 | For a family in the position of hers it would have been like saying one needed air to breathe . |
| 6 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |