Example sentences of "it be [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's like being a very little fish on the end of a very long line . ’ |
| 32 | One woman compared it to her experience of being in service in the past : ‘ It 's like being in service . |
| 33 | ‘ It 's like being in a Western . |
| 34 | And it 's con the temperature is constant , it 's like being in an incubator . |
| 35 | It gets all its nutrition , all its oxygen etcetera etcetera through the placenta from its mother 's circulation and the mother has no problem whatsoever in her body functions , right , otherwise she would be a mongrel , so the food is going straight into the baby , it 's like being drip fed , there 's no problem . |
| 36 | It 's like being all alone in our own world , Ruth thought . |
| 37 | ‘ It 's like being in a different world , ’ she keeps saying . |
| 38 | ‘ It 's like being in a different world . ’ |
| 39 | It 's like being in a house where you used to live , but you ca n't quite remember its danger points . |
| 40 | to be taken in hand and led , like being a child again , even without the innocence , a child — It 's like being given a prize , an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it , as a prize for being good , or compensation for never having had one … |
| 41 | It 's like being in a city and being besieged . |
| 42 | It 's like being married . ’ |
| 43 | It 's like being aborigines or North American Indians after the colonists have arrived . |
| 44 | Sarah says it 's like being in the condemned cell and being let out . |
| 45 | ‘ It 's particularly fun when all the actors come in dressed up in costume — it 's like being in some surreal painting . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ It 's like being a reverse zombie , ’ he said , ‘ I 'm alive , but everybody else is dead . ’ |
| 47 | When Tim Pigott Smith looks directly at you , it 's like being given an electric shock . |
| 48 | It 's like being mentally naked in the street . |
| 49 | ‘ It 's like being in a cathedral , ’ she said in a hushed voice . |
| 50 | It 's like being born again it 's a lovely feeling . |
| 51 | ‘ It 's like being God , is n't it ? |
| 52 | It 's like being a pioneer ’ |
| 53 | It 's like being a pioneer , ’ she reports , received like ‘ revelations ’ , she writes on her work in the ward . |
| 54 | I know we used the video but that was for a very specific reason but if you know have you ever been to one of those lectures where there 's there 's overheads going on here and then they go and they write on there and they you have some slides and then you have a video and then you know it 's like being at Wimbledon . |
| 55 | It 's like being zipped into a sponge bag — yuck . |
| 56 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 57 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 58 | ‘ It 's like being at school . |
| 59 | But it includes much more … from personal hygiene to library studies … from a Police course to knowing what it 's like being deaf . |
| 60 | It 's like being |