Example sentences of "it [be] like [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like being a house without a roof . ’ |
| 2 | I 've always said it 's like being a race horse , you have to train so hard . |
| 3 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's like being a reverse zombie , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm alive , but everybody else is dead . ’ |
| 5 | It 's like being a pioneer ’ |
| 6 | It 's like being a pioneer , ’ she reports , received like ‘ revelations ’ , she writes on her work in the ward . |
| 7 | Time , when I ask people in workshops what it is like being a teacher , they say they feel unappreciated : unappreciated within the school by seniors , colleagues and pupils , and unappreciated by the world at large — parents , politicians , pundits , the media . |
| 8 | With empathy , we try to imagine what it is like being the other person and experiencing things as he does . |
| 9 | But , as we can now see , it was like being a science fiction writer really . |
| 10 | It was like being a naughty seaside postcard . |
| 11 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 12 | He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was like being a champion at tennis , and condemned to play with rabbits , as well as having always to get their wretched balls out of the net for them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was like being a child again , but a secure one rather than someone like her who 'd never been encouraged to cry out her troubles and fears . |
| 17 | It was like being a spirit in the Realm of Bliss . |
| 18 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 19 | It was like being an undergraduate a year without having been drunk . |
| 20 | 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 . |