Example sentences of "[adv] like putting " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect was very much like putting an egg in an open electric food mixer . |
| 2 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 3 | he ca n't have known what he was doing — it was just like putting his head in a gas oven . |
| 4 | Gerald has been known to coin such memorable one-liners as the following : ‘ If the joy of the Lord is our strength , it 's little wonder that the church in Britain has been so weak and ineffective ’ ; ‘ There 's no virtue in being ten or twenty years behind the times ’ ; ‘ Most Christians are nicer than God himself ’ ; ‘ It is the unshared areas of our lives where Jesus is not Lord ’ ; ‘ One of the reasons the church in Britain has failed to grow is quite simply because it is full of people who are extremely rude ’ ; ‘ Putting the life of God into institutional Christianity is rather like putting the life of a human being into a kangaroo … . ’ 'You are only a leader if someone 's following you' ( Gerald Quotes ) . |
| 5 | This is rather like putting the cart before the horse and it is very difficult later to take up the study of the horse when all previous emphasis has been placed upon the cart ! |
| 6 | Rather like putting up a mouth to get a kiss and getting a blow instead . |
| 7 | It is really like putting a deco card into the card holder on the Duo 80 so that the little teeth fit into the holes of the card . |