Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [pron] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring his dig , she decided that if the inside was anything like the outside she could bear to wait . |
| 2 | And that voice was nothing like the voice he had heard on the tape of church music . |
| 3 | It was true , as Tim had said , that the nearest keeper 's cottage was something like an hour 's hard tramp by footpath across the park and through the woods — but there was a short cut , if Mary dared take it . |
| 4 | The face was something like a skull , but the contours were wrong . |
| 5 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |