Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] [noun] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she knew who it was with eyes like Sarah Morey 's . |
| 2 | It was at times like this that I felt very small in the landscape . |
| 3 | It was at times like this that my physical and emotional stamina dangerously evaporated ; nurturing was essential . |
| 4 | It was at moments like this that John Coffin realized that the Inspector would go right to the top . |
| 5 | It was at moments like this that I would reflect on concepts like the ‘ community ’ of work and how lost one can be without it . |
| 6 | It was on idiocies like this that the frail sisterhood thrived . |
| 7 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |
| 8 | It was on days like these that the emptiness came back and one grew desperate . |
| 9 | It was of films like these that the exhibitor Sidney Bernstein may have been speaking when he said : |
| 10 | The absence of a clear candidate was likely to result in a land torn by dispute and , because Arjun had not so far named anyone , it was to men like Burun that the others looked for indication of a preference . |
| 11 | The criticism hurt , but it was from encounters like this that Charles discovered what his position as Prince of Wales was all about . |
| 12 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 13 | It was beneath people like Algy to carry ‘ ready money ’ , let alone pay anyone with it except cabbies . |