Example sentences of "[noun sg] was like [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have to sit there and take his abuse was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer 's chair . |
| 2 | The sensation was like being nipped by a small insect . |
| 3 | Being Ymor 's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces . |
| 4 | I went to lunch with my mother , who told me giving birth was like being run over by a steamroller ; thanks for the reassurance , Mum . |
| 5 | Discovering she was the granddaughter of a knight was like being turned from a frog into a princess . |
| 6 | Being cared for in a hospital was like being a child again . |
| 7 | Watching a film was like being a voyeur , living vicariously . |
| 8 | Slipping down into the parking-lot under the hotel was like being swallowed , the entrance a dark throat with the tongue cut out . |
| 9 | The sense of sustaining joy was not incompatible with feeling that the papal office was like being crucified . |