Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] like " in BNC.

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1 This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years .
2 In this respect , it has been like Frank 's own career since The Americans .
3 It has been like that all through the history of the place .
4 ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’
5 It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’
6 Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’
7 The hum of the bowstring when it came was like the sound of a harp being tuned , and when Jehan glanced back again Alexei was getting down from his bay to recover his arrows .
8 it look 's like a wedding to me
9 It get 's like that every night now do n't it ?
10 We 've always had drams , but the way it developed was like a natural progression .
11 How did this affect your enjoyment of the story ? 2 What would it have been like , if it had been told by his sister ?
12 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 .
13 In the early days of the strike Jayaben Desai , perhaps Britain 's best known Asian trade unionist , described to me what it had been like when she came to work at Grunwick in the mail order department :
14 When Emily asked him what it had been like then , his eyes filled with tears .
15 At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't .
16 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 . ’
17 It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope .
18 Maybe it had been like worship then , worship that begins in love and dovetails neatly into hate .
19 It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds .
20 It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer .
21 It had been like a miracle .
22 It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything .
23 When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him .
24 How did she know it had been like that ?
25 That would n't be easy ; even now he was beginning to remember what it had been like when he 'd been small and afraid of the dark , unable to sleep without a nightlight .
26 For a while they had all pretended , but it had been like walking on broken glass .
27 Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship .
28 He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago .
29 It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled .
30 It had been like this last night .
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