Example sentences of "like being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's like being on the rack . ’ |
| 3 | It 's like being on a runaway roundabout . |
| 4 | It 's like being on holiday . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's like being on school trips when someone 's in charge and the challenge is to dodge them , ’ guffaws Paul . |
| 6 | It was n't much of a race , more like being on a training run with a 1000-odd friends . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's like being on your honour to work all the time . ’ |
| 8 | It was like being on a ship , but a steady , secure and snugly protective ship . |
| 9 | Effectively you ‘ field ’ their excuse , just like being on a cricket field and throwing back a ball that 's been hit towards you . |
| 10 | Like being on the edge of the world . ’ |
| 11 | What 's it like being on the road with your mother ? |
| 12 | A coach was just right ; like being on a very tall horse , or even an elephant . |
| 13 | ‘ That was brilliant fun , ’ says Carolyn , ‘ like being on a drag hunt in the middle of London . ’ |
| 14 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 15 | Trisha says this was an emotional as well as a physical reality : ‘ This feeling of being out of control is like being on a roller coaster — there 's no way out . ’ |
| 16 | It was like being on stage in a spotlight , which revealed every minor action and reaction . |
| 17 | Like being on holiday , is n't it ? |
| 18 | She comments , ‘ Life seems like being on a perpetual moving merry-go-round but I love every minute of it . ’ |
| 19 | It 's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home . |
| 20 | This is what it is like being on the outside of a murder case , thought Gabriel . |
| 21 | Like being on a boat , I think , ’ she added doubtfully . |
| 22 | I mean they all say they understand what it 's like being on the dole and that , but they do n't . |
| 23 | Well what was it like being on Top of the Pops surrounded by |
| 24 | It 's like being at the sea , early in the morning with the seagulls and the sea pounding away and the fresh air . |
| 25 | Like being at a gravediggers ' convention , I thought , when one had marked out one 's first plot . |
| 26 | It was like being at the source of the lightning . |
| 27 | It is rather like being at the Court of Elizabeth 1 . |
| 28 | It was like being at the edge of the world . |
| 29 | To an extent you 're your own master … you can decide what you want to do and when you want to do it … it 's not like being at work when somebody rings you up and you 've got to go down and see them or you 've got to do this and that within half an hour . |
| 30 | A bit like being at school . |