Example sentences of "is what it [verb] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be forced to argue that one is a full human being of equal dignity ( for that is what it felt like ) is quite extraordinarily undermining . |
| 2 | It was quite an appropriate place for me to be born again , which is what it felt like . |
| 3 | John heard a noise just like Constable Hobbs ' bicycle screeching down the side of the box until it met an obstacle on the wall and stopped or that is what it sounded like in the stillness of the night . |
| 4 | Instances of discourse deixis are the use of that and this in the following : ( 21 ) Puff puff puff : that is what it sounded like ( 22 ) This is what phoneticians call creaky voice Finally , social deixis concerns the encoding of social distinctions that are relative to participant-roles , particularly aspects of the social relationship holding between speaker and addressee(s) or speaker and some referent . |
| 5 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
| 6 | Either it is an unusual example of stream-lining or , it is what it looks like , a weapon . |
| 7 | knit the next few rows as usual , then cross the cable the opposite way ( in the same channel ) you are producing what is sometimes called a snake cable , since that is what it looks like . |
| 8 | The first ‘ object ’ is what is there to be seen ; the second is what it looks like . |
| 9 | The genotype is the set of genes it inherited , the phenotype is what it looks like . |
| 10 | This is what it looks like . |