Example sentences of "[be] like [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 2 | It must be like looking back through primitive blown glass . |
| 3 | I had no interest in what this house should be like wishing only for a place and quickly to lay my head and could hardly rouse myself to inspect it . |
| 4 | It would be like running away from him back at the basement . |
| 5 | Not wearing a shellsuit at Center Parcs would be like running out on the pitch at Wembley in a dinner jacket . |
| 6 | It 's got to be like cuddling up to a cushion as well as doing that terrible , animal thing . |
| 7 | A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie . |
| 8 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 9 | YOUR visit to the Hall is like stepping straight into a vanished world . |
| 10 | Going into North Road station is like stepping back in time . |
| 11 | The interior light is like returning home from the world in the evening to the cheer and warmth and light . |
| 12 | Doing geology is like playing outdoors with enigmatic jig-saw puzzles : giant puzzles in the two dimensions of the Earth 's surface , the third dimension of a drill hole and the fourth dimension of time . |
| 13 | With all that rubber between you and it , it 's like riding around in a car and never getting out . |
| 14 | But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician . |
| 15 | It 's not much fun , you 're chained to the wall — it 's like going back to a medieval library . |
| 16 | ‘ In a way it 's like going back to square one , and starting from scratch again , but it 's what we have to do . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Blackburn 's like going back in time , ’ he says . |
| 18 | It was like stepping backwards in time . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 20 | As one Shell executive remembers of his visits : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 21 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 22 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 23 | It was like counting down to an explosion . |
| 24 | It seems stupid now but you ca n't imagine what it was like stumbling about in the dark and then seeing him daubing away … whoever heard of painted flowers … ’ |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | It was like switching over from an old black and white film . |
| 27 | They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui , and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere ; Rachel felt she was being shaken till her teeth rattled as the car sped up through the cross-harbour tunnel into Causeway Bay , past the bobbing sampans and the escort clubs , speeding towards Central District along the harbour road , traffic everywhere , horns blasting in her ears … |
| 28 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 29 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 30 | Coming into it was like coming home on a bitter cold day to a bright , leaping fire . |