Example sentences of "[was/were] like the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 2 | In it the king suggested that American plans for the Gulf were like the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 , in which Britain and France carved up Turkey 's former Arab provinces . |
| 3 | The windows were like the windows of the children 's ward where Baby used to be , of white glass which you could n't see through . |
| 4 | The rooms were like the passage , packed with antiques . |
| 5 | The British , it says in effect , were like the Nazis ; they too were war criminals . |
| 6 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 7 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 8 | The well-fleshed ghosts of my imaginings were like the insistent daimones of classical times who , if neglected , drove their victim to ever-greater follies . |
| 9 | He 'd never been one to exercise an over-imagination , yet the conditions were like the feeling of a tomb — of an interment . |
| 10 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 11 | But the foundations for this belief were like the Cheshire Cat in Alice of Wonderland ; the more one looked at them , the less substance they seemed to have . |
| 12 | As Barth once put it , he and Brunner were like the elephant and the whale : both were God 's creatures , but it was impossible for them to meet ! |
| 13 | IN PARTS of Serb-held Bosnia , the results of the two-day referendum on the Vance-Owen peace plan were like the good old days of Russia or China . |
| 14 | References to Ceylon cricket in journals of the time were like the entry for ‘ snakes ’ in the legendary Irish encyclopedia : ‘ There are no snakes in Ireland . ’ |
| 15 | that primitive peoples , and our ancestors , were like the neurotics , the ‘ abnormals ’ , he saw as patients , and unlike the ‘ normals ’ . |
| 16 | Only sometimes in dreams the terrible days of the siege , which were like the dark foundation of the civilized life they had returned to , would return years later to visit them : then they would awake , terrified and sweating , to find themselves in white starched linen , in a comfortable bed , in peaceful England . |
| 17 | His eyelashes were like the feathery brushes of a model 's compact . |
| 18 | The two grappling at a conversation on the porch — one a capable wrestler in his time ( famous local wrestlers like George Wood and himself often ended up as innkeepers ) , the other , Harrison , a contender for honours and prize money on that very day — were like the wrestlers when seeking for a grip . |
| 19 | Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals , their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns . |
| 20 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 21 | The walls had once been beige ; the chairs were like the nasty one beside his bed ; the tables were formica . |
| 22 | They were like the boy she had seen at Oak Lodge … |
| 23 | Her cries of sorrow and anger were like the fleeting cries of dawn birds , banished from this forbidden place of battle , this Bird Spirit Land … |
| 24 | It used to seem to me that the different ways I felt sometimes about ideas , courses of action and so on were like the differing political moods that countries go through . |
| 25 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 26 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 27 | The insecurity I felt was due to my lack of true religion , and was like the small change of the exalted pessimism of our faith , the pessimism that can drive men on to do wonders . |
| 28 | Back stage was like the Costa Brava : everyone oiling themselves and each other . |
| 29 | It was like the whole audience was eating celery . |
| 30 | He was like the bloke who you saw right through the film overseeing the whole operation , just standing there sticking little pins into a map . |