Example sentences of "[be] like [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's been like going out |
| 2 | Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket . |
| 3 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 4 | It is like taking out a mortgage : we have to repay the loan many times over . |
| 5 | Later , he would complain irritably about his silver-spooned Tory colleagues : ‘ These people have no idea what is like to run out of money at the end of the week . ’ |
| 6 | Suddenly it was like living out a Grade B TV movie . |
| 7 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 8 | When Dannii ( as she likes to be known ) was seven she first learned what it was like to lose out to the star quality of her sister . |
| 9 | ‘ In a way it was like taking out a full-page ad in the New York Times , ’ he grins . |
| 10 | To find out that she was a drug user was like finding out your twin was a murderer . |
| 11 | It made sense , of course , but to give up direct production of national network features , which I had originated and perfected , was a wrench ; it was like putting out one 's own child for adoption . |