Example sentences of "that [pron] [was/were] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the war continued I could ( almost ) fool myself into believing that I was like those other women who were merely separated from their men ‘ for the duration ’ — or , if not that , at least I felt that my life was suspended . |
| 2 | I remember many occasions when friends would reassure me that I was like them , there were n't any differences . |
| 3 | But she also concurred in the view that I was like my father . |
| 4 | the tenderness of Joe was so beautifully proportioned to my need , that I was like a child in his hands . |
| 5 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 6 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 7 | Except that one was like a film speeded up ; the other was slowed down . ’ |
| 8 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 9 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 10 | He was as sensitive about his body as a proud owner of its pet 's and was perpetually asking her to look inside his ear to see whether there was something amiss — she saw nothing but pink perfection — and wondering about the freshness of his lungs in the atmosphere — she assumed that they were like his ears — and surveying the immaculateness , the flatness of his belly in her long wall mirror with its carved , wooden frame . |
| 11 | Through the glass and the vines overhead could be seen the blue sky and the white clouds , so that it was like being both indoors and out at the same time . |
| 12 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 13 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 14 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 15 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |
| 16 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |
| 17 | Now , watching his grinning monkey face as he swung , arm over arm , the frantic twisting of his body , the silver of the delicate ribcage under the pale flesh where the jacket had parted from his jeans , she felt a surge of love so painful that it was like a thrust to the heart . |
| 18 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 19 | People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city . |
| 20 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 21 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |
| 22 | The other girl in contrast to both Jenny and Sheila was so heavily made up that it was like looking at someone behind a mask . |
| 23 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 24 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 25 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ We were all so close , ’ Peter Rogers told me , ‘ that it was like talking about members of our own family , especially Ken . |
| 27 | The success of the tour made it less difficult to tell herself that this was what she wanted , but it did n't stop those sudden down-swings when she was swept by a longing so total that it was like a haemorrhage of the soul . |
| 28 | I , I do n't say that it was like being grilled by the K G B he was most polite and courteous . |
| 29 | She stayed on at the hotel and distracted him and then the next day other people got to him and explained that Parkinson was really a nice guy and that it was like painting and . |
| 30 | That he was like that . |