Example sentences of "[was/were] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't like a prison cell , it-was like a maid 's room , Eve told herself firmly . |
| 2 | Liza and John were like no newly-weds that Harriet had ever known . |
| 3 | Their smiles were like a knowing wink : sussed and street-wise without being in the least dour or po-faced . |
| 4 | To begin with , he thought I was as close to Steve and Paul as they were to each other — and they were like a single amoeba that wo n't let anyone else into its world . |
| 5 | They were as green as grass , they were like a bunch of lost chickens outside the coop . |
| 6 | We were like a terrible gypsy encampment . |
| 7 | The two rows of upholstered seats facing each other were like a pair of matching beds , one for each so they would not again need to share except when they wanted to . |
| 8 | We were like a couple of shamans . |
| 9 | Her memories were like a small , locked box of securities and because she knew they were there , safely there , she had no need to open them . |
| 10 | Her heartbeats were like a constant patter now , and she felt pains inside her chest and head . |
| 11 | We were like a convoy of ships , save that our horizon was a trembling yellow band , and there was not even a wake to indicate our movement . |
| 12 | This was easy to defend since the rivers were like a moat on three sides . |
| 13 | George feels that he has to make a decision on how to approach the next phase : ‘ Though I did n't wish to retire , the first three months were like a holiday . |
| 14 | Watch straps were like a cottage industry , so we adopted the marketing techniques of a baked beans company . |
| 15 | They were like a map of Europe , and that was where James Halden was enjoying a luxurious , carefree holiday with his wife . |
| 16 | They were like a great flock of gulls swooping to tear and gobble at their prey . |
| 17 | Blank et al have pulled together all those niggling influences which previously were like a series of half-formed sentences and have made something coherent and splendid out of them . |
| 18 | ‘ They were like a pack converging on me and I was terrified , ’ Mr Waller told the court . |
| 19 | Besides , ducks were like a lot of other animals and recognized in nomes the shape , if not the size , of humans and kept a safe distance away from them . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always thought Carry On films were like a pair of old jeans . |
| 21 | In this connection we may even talk of rules of language , as if a linguistic practice were like a game . |
| 22 | The photographs were like a comic-strip biography : Salperton in pictures . |
| 23 | Once the Abbey Road studios were like a big family with pictures of Otto Klemperer and Christa Ludwig welcoming you from the walls . |
| 24 | Somebody singing … but the small Ruth , looking up from the rug , did n't like it ; the clear trickling notes were like a shiver down her back , like raindrops sliding down a windowpane . |
| 25 | They were like a pair of burglars , he thought , making free of someone 's house while the owners were away on holiday . |
| 26 | They were like a couple of newly-weds , fondly excited by each other 's company , by the experience of their first dinner party . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sad , Luney , that 's what it is , ’ and she wished Luney could cover her the way she had Francis , as though she too were like a baby . |
| 28 | They were like a needle stuck in a gramophone record , inexorably repeating embrace after embrace . |
| 29 | He was stripped to the waist and the scars on his chest were like a map of the battles in which he had fought . |
| 30 | His chest , his entire frame , were like a fire-walker 's bed of coals . |