Example sentences of "[verb] be like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAF Abingdon has been like a ghost town since the summer . |
| 2 | Costs Strathclyde , hit proportionately harder , has been like a man living on starvation rations throughout the eighties . |
| 3 | If the kidnap was bad enough , the death of his son , and done like that , has been like a bullet in his gut . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 5 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 6 | it look 's like a wedding to me |
| 7 | Look 's like a drawing . |
| 8 | Cos append is like a path for data |
| 9 | What happened was like a farce in the theatre ! |
| 10 | If what you hear is like a field |
| 11 | The Press Box must have been like a morgue when David McCallan scored that goal against them in the Irish Cup quarter final . |
| 12 | ‘ It must have been like a drug to him . |
| 13 | It must have been like a drug to him because he sounded completely obsessed . |
| 14 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 15 | That would have been like a win to us and I 'm sure a draw would have felt like a failure in the Australian dressing room . |
| 16 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |
| 17 | This now returned and it seemed that her meeting with Tom and Peter had been like a dream from which she was waking up to reality . |
| 18 | The house alone had been like a dream come true after the two-bedroomed flat on the outskirts of Stirling where she and her mother had lived in near penury for the past seven years since Shiona 's father 's death . |
| 19 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 20 | Two hours spent inside those drab grey walls had been like a life sentence . |
| 21 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 22 | No wonder Matthew had been like a man awaiting sentence . |
| 23 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 24 | It had been like a miracle . |
| 25 | She had been like a barrier between Jessamy and her husband , not particularly important but always there , irritating and chafing , like a stone in the shoe . |
| 26 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 27 | Every breath that I take is like a gust of autumn breeze . |
| 28 | The landscape which generation after generation created is like a classroom blackboard at the end of a day , on which each lesson has been written without entirely erasing the previous one . |
| 29 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 30 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |