Example sentences of "[vb past] like [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
2 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
3 | God knows what it felt like from the inside . |
4 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
5 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
6 | This morning she was in another of her daydreams , it looked like to the exasperated Victorine . |
7 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
8 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
9 | Roman comedy and satire may seem tame to us ; one wonders what it looked like in the eyes of Greek aristocrats . |
10 | Indeed , Pausanias shows us what an account of a war with the Celts looked like in the pre-scientific days of Celtic studies , in the third century B.C. Direct contacts with the Celts seem to have been confined to prisoners or to mercenaries , bad subjects for ethnographic research |
11 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
12 | No one like himself , a partial cripple , with a badly scarred body — his limp was paining him this week — and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise ; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore . |
13 | How could he tell what she looked like in the darkness ? |
14 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
15 | They say it 's anonymous , they just log it on computer and it 's just , to show people in the future what we spoke like in the nineties |
16 | God only knew what she sounded like on the air . |
17 | John heard a noise just like Constable Hobbs ' bicycle screeching down the side of the box until it met an obstacle on the wall and stopped or that is what it sounded like in the stillness of the night . |