Example sentences of "like [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's like firing a pot . |
| 2 | A great critic may evoke what it was like to attend a historic performance , but only a genius can provide an equivalent emotional experience . |
| 3 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 4 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 5 | Watching you jump was … well , it was like seeing a firework going off , a sky-rocket . |
| 6 | It felt like seeing a film happening round you . |
| 7 | Because Roirbak had built the machine to appear humanoid , more so than any of the others in the building , it was like seeing a real dead body lying there . |
| 8 | It was like seeing a very strong gust of wind coming straight at me . |
| 9 | It was like seeing a room that 's been tidied up after a death . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's like seeing a snowball start to roll down a mountain . |
| 11 | — Sid Breeze : By popular request , another chance to hear Sid tell us what it was like to drive a steam engine on British Railways . |
| 12 | Gluing up wrong is like crashing a car . |
| 13 | Butyl liners can be repaired successfully with a patch and special adhesive ( it 's rather like repairing a puncture in a cycle inner-tube ) . |
| 14 | But suddenly , like catching a whiff of the sea when you 're still miles up the river , I had a feeling there was more to life than this . |
| 15 | Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball . |
| 16 | Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball . |
| 17 | At the operational level planning tasks will be simpler and there is less need to look for complex procedures as it would be like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut . |
| 18 | To be frank with you , I 've never found a space in a lead break where I 've felt like using a whammy move . ’ |
| 19 | Writing on a touch sensitive computer screen with a ‘ stylus ’ just like using a pen and paper has been possible for quite some time now . |
| 20 | Which is a bit like building a hydrogen-powered engine and hiding the designs under your bed . |
| 21 | It 's when you come to do a job like building a fitted wardrobe that you realise that your house is not ‘ true ’ . |
| 22 | Another is the global financial system , since ‘ building a single completely open financial system , subject to minimal regulation , is like building a supertanker without airtight compartments … a single hole in the hull can sink the tanker ’ . |
| 23 | Even if it 's some idea like building a restaurant like a ship . |
| 24 | ‘ Like building a Celtic Studies museum along the waterfront , a marina , hotel and museum complex . |
| 25 | Really , it was like consoling a small child . |
| 26 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 27 | Next I had to run errands and to do various little jobs like drawing a pint of vinegar from a big barrel in the warehouse or sawing up blocks of salt with a special saw into a prescribed thickness , ready to be packed in brown paper . |
| 28 | Remarkable song at communal display ground , starting with a resonant rattle and ending with a sound like drawing a cork and pouring liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle , followed by a crashing sound made by scraping wing quills on the ground . |
| 29 | You 'd be amazed what he looks like sucking a dog 's toe . |
| 30 | It 's absurd , these days , like submitting a portrait in oils with your passport application . |