Example sentences of "[be] like be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smells travel well under water , though what the experience of underwater scents may be like is open to imagination . |
| 2 | Being fearless is like being immune to pain : it means we do things which others , in their right minds , would never consider . |
| 3 | So you know what it 's like being small |
| 4 | It 's like being married . ’ |
| 5 | But it includes much more … from personal hygiene to library studies … from a Police course to knowing what it 's like being deaf . |
| 6 | John Upson says that it 's like being Managing Director of a good team . |
| 7 | It 's like being stuck on a telephone line . |
| 8 | And it was like being new to prison all over again , the rules and regulations were quite different . |
| 9 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 10 | In the course of the evening we had sampled a wide variety of wines , and were now experiencing a woozy sense of disassociation that was like being drunk and hung-over at the same time . |
| 11 | It was like being sick : she loathed herself , but there was an awful relief in doing it . |
| 12 | It was like being adrift on a warm sea , floating on a slow , swelling tide that would eventually wash up on a sun-kissed beach in little breakers of sparkling foam . |
| 13 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |