Example sentences of "it be like [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine what 's it 's like to tackle him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's like telling him there 's no Father Christmas , ’ she sniffed . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's like asking me to part with my heart , ’ replied Harold , half-meaning it , ‘ but since you ask me , I shall count it an honour , my dear . ’ |
| 4 | You do n't know , it 's like asking me how hell compares with heaven , it 's just absurd ! |
| 5 | ‘ If I select an object it 's like hitting it . |
| 6 | But living with another woman — it 's like saying you can do without men altogether . ’ |
| 7 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 8 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 9 | It was like discovering you have a disease ; something permanent but liveable-with , like diabetes . |
| 10 | Studying him now , dispassionately , without the emotional blindness of the aftermath of her accident , or the initial shock of finding that he was last night 's rescuer , it was like seeing him properly for the first time … |
| 11 | This was to keep alive , in boys whose privileged background might have encouraged complacent acceptance rather than active pursuit of power , a keen appreciation of what it was like to have it , and what it was like to be without it . |
| 12 | It was like playing It 's A Knockout every day for a month — demanding both stamina and a sense of humour . ’ |
| 13 | And it was like rubbing it in when I saw my patient . |
| 14 | It was like pulling them off a duplicating machine , and after a while , when we realised we had little or no chance of catching anything bigger , it became so boring we never went again . |