Example sentences of "[was/were] like the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rooms were like the passage , packed with antiques . |
| 5 | They were like the boy she had seen at Oak Lodge … |
| 6 | The Chinese imagined that the Scots were like the Albanians — and appropriately enough we were taken to the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune . ) |
| 7 | The British , it says in effect , were like the Nazis ; they too were war criminals . |
| 8 | But he would give her anything then but it were like the doctor said it was too late . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd never been one to exercise an over-imagination , yet the conditions were like the feeling of a tomb — of an interment . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | that primitive peoples , and our ancestors , were like the neurotics , the ‘ abnormals ’ , he saw as patients , and unlike the ‘ normals ’ . |
| 16 | Anthony , recognizing incompetence , grasped Dalgliesh 's hair firmly with a sticky hand and he felt the momentary touch of a cheek , so soft that it was like the fall of a petal . |
| 17 | It was like the smell of bacon when you were hungry ; loving arms when you were lonely ; safety when you were scared … |
| 18 | His voice was like the water — it gave an illusion of velvety warmth . |
| 19 | Well , I was like the rest , I 'd got to help out standing at the stalls , like . |
| 20 | He was like the rest of the lifers , he did n't need me any more . |
| 21 | But surely the clock was like the rest , changeless . |
| 22 | Her voice was like the rest of her , cool and classy . |
| 23 | Viewed from space , the normal progress of the survey ship was like the passage of a comet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For those of us unable to attend the tournament , it was like the BBC equivalent of the oafs who call out those little ditties ‘ You 're the man ’ or ‘ Get in the hole ’ . |
| 26 | The strange relationship she had with him was like the painting , she thought — nothing quite what it appeared , unveiling new facets each time she considered it . |
| 27 | Sometimes , Hawk was like the masters she had seen in Chinese martial arts movies , talking in parables , and drawing out his pupil 's skills through subterfuge . |
| 28 | He was like the squirrel with his bright clear skin , his healthy curls and gleaming eyes : not at all a sullen , greedy , domestic beast , destined for an ignominious end . |
| 29 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |
| 30 | There was a dry leathery quality about the voice that was like the breaking of a branch . |