Example sentences of "like [v-ing] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like firing into a sand-pile . |
| 2 | It was like stepping into a museum . |
| 3 | Entering one of the 104 spacious suites is like stepping into a time warp . |
| 4 | WATCHING Paris Match is like tucking into a plate of meringues and discovering that they are all Styrofoam fakes . |
| 5 | Checking into Air Canada 's Hospitality Class is like checking into a five star hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ We want it to be like walking into a craft exhibition , ’ says Sam Wanamaker . |
| 7 | The scent was the first thing : it was like walking into a peach-canning factory . |
| 8 | Though late afternoon , it was like walking into a blast furnace and she was glad she 'd twisted her dark , glossy hair into a knot on top of her head . |
| 9 | From the boardwalks of Atlantic City and on to Route 66 , visiting the U.S. really does feel like walking into an old familiar scene , says Bernice Davison , Travel Editor |
| 10 | His diary has been well edited : to read it is like looking into a large egg-shell full of bubbles . |
| 11 | It was like looking into a mirror . |
| 12 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 13 | The sea is calm , but such ripples as there are flick the light from the sun about and refract the view of the pebbles so that staring over the edge of the kayak is like peeing into a kaleidoscope over whose speed of rotation you have no control . |
| 14 | Our lecturer , who had spent months translating hieroglyphics there , said that entering the great , dim temple was for her , even now , like swimming into a warm patch of sea . |
| 15 | It 's like going into a ninety-mile-an-hour spin on a cliff road in a Ferrari — and still not dying . ’ |
| 16 | A default colour palette will be displayed on the screen from which you select colours for your woolbox , rather like going into a shop , choosing cones of different colour yarns and putting them into a bag to take home ! |
| 17 | It was cold in the Chapel , like going into a tunnel . |
| 18 | It 's like going into a dark room and being afraid . |
| 19 | Of undetermined role is Julia M Seashells , a two-legged mermaid who presides over Tony with a verbal rolling in : Andy Hobson , who plays keyboards but is worn out from his other job of writing false accounts of Stockport County in the local paper ; and the slides and video man Adge , who 's responsible for the band 's cool stage set which makes watching World Of Twist like peering into a late-'60s trash prog . |
| 20 | The king seemed to himself to turn suddenly , and gaze back into his own mind , and it was like peering into a cavern where dangerous creatures lurked , such as he had never suspected could habit within him . |
| 21 | Of undetermined role is Julia M Seashells , a two-legged mermaid who presides over Tony with a verbal rolling in : Andy Hobson , who plays keyboards but is worn out from his other job of writing false accounts of Stockport County in the local paper ; and the slides and video man Adge , who 's responsible for the band 's cool stage set which makes watching World Of Twist like peering into a late-'60s trash prog . |
| 22 | The ‘ war on drugs ’ looks like turning into a Norteamericano war on the peasants and the ruthless Maoists of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 23 | They needed to engage more senior and junior counsel to help them to fight what looked like turning into a very long legal battle . |
| 24 | A COLLEGE course about former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher looks like turning into a giant flop . |
| 25 | Her sisters , brothers-in-law , nephews , nieces and a couple of aunts were coming over , and it looked like turning into a noisy , boisterous family affair . |
| 26 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 27 | They would be on college property , and that was somehow different — not like breaking into a stranger 's house in the outside world . |
| 28 | I prefer to arrive in New York at night , to lower myself into the city gradually , like getting into a bathful of very hot water . |
| 29 | Looking at the food was like staring into an abdominal incision . |
| 30 | For the novice , who had spent a mere two months in training in the city , far from home in Scottish pit village or Norfolk town , the introduction to beat work was like plunging into a cold shower . |