Example sentences of "have [been] like [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 2 | It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly . |
| 3 | Sharing a duvet with Mia must have been like sleeping with Unicef . |
| 4 | This was travelling in style — as one Imperial Airways passenger put it : ‘ I was sorry to get out ; it had been like sitting in a comfortable friendly club . ’ |
| 5 | For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass . |
| 6 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |
| 7 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |