Example sentences of "that it was like " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He said that it was like taking dictation , ‘ as if I was ghosting for another man ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People who visited Saddam 's bunker told me afterwards that it was like an underground city . |
| 10 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We were all so close , ’ Peter Rogers told me , ‘ that it was like talking about members of our own family , especially Ken . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I , I do n't say that it was like being grilled by the K G B he was most polite and courteous . |
| 19 | 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 . |