Example sentences of "[was/were] like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ankles were like tree trunks and I could just about reach the model because I was so big . |
| 2 | They were like law reports , cases concerning this or that , rather than a narrative linking events in a chain as cause and effect . |
| 3 | He cleaned it up a bit and a scrap yard and it , and this thing and they were like hills and rock gardens , you know like |
| 4 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 5 | And when the rain poured down in Carmarthen and the streets were like rivers , still the crowds stood out and waited . |
| 6 | Derek Green says it was much harder than last year … the streams were like rivers and he got swept away once |
| 7 | I 've known when they used to deal with the flake , what they call the Flake Mill , that 's er down at erm Eagle Mill down near the lock gates when they were making this here which were like corn flakes for the , for the animals and and they were dropped like this , be nice and warm and |
| 8 | They were like cogs working together , fitting into place when and where they were needed . |
| 9 | If only all men were like Steve — nice and uncomplicated — life would be sweet . |
| 10 | how the Jews were like sheep |
| 11 | My hands and feet were like ice . |
| 12 | My hands and feet were like ice . |
| 13 | God , they were like ice and yet fiery all at the same time . |
| 14 | You were like ice , and I was the same . |
| 15 | Bishoprics were in the royal gift and , as sizeable landed endowments , they were like fiefs . |
| 16 | Her arms were like sticks and the purple-black bruise looked swollen and painful . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought she 'd have a rougher time than she did , unlike some team members who were like bulls at a gate . |
| 18 | For Linnaeus the varieties of men were like breeds of dog , different in their appearance , different in their manifest behaviour , but indifferently equal in their moral quality . |
| 19 | The peas well they were like bullets ! |
| 20 | You know , so they were like , they were like bullets ! |
| 21 | Those illustrations were like admission to someone else 's dreams — at times glowing with visionary fire , at others the pitchblende hallucinations of a tormented mind . |
| 22 | She once joked that we were like ships that passed in the night . ’ |
| 23 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 24 | It is extraordinary to imagine that she and my mother could ever have been sisters , they were like beings from different species . |
| 25 | mm , that 's right , because there were like lines across where they |
| 26 | I mean we still live , which is a sad fact , but we still live in a society where we were like lepers , we still live in a society where you can still reject , and it should n't be that ; you should n't have the option to reject , you should have the support there . |
| 27 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 28 | They were stopped outside the gate , of course , and after a time the sergeant on guard came out and spoke to them and they began an argument and it got very heated because this sergeant thought that the Americans were like knights of old rescuing a damsel in distress . |
| 29 | They were like bunches of oranges and lemons |
| 30 | In such instances court cases were like contests . |