Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] like [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 2 | So that it would if it were were just like a trough . |
| 3 | I was only teasing you because I thought you were just like the rest of them . |
| 4 | They were just like the creature outside , but only about twenty centimetres long . |
| 5 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 6 | The elections were apparently to decide the membership of 26 district councils , but in fact they were more like a refererendum , with multiple choices , on the province 's future . |
| 7 | But if a writer were more like a reader , he 'd be a reader , not a writer : it 's as uncomplicated as that . |
| 8 | The second concerned the shops ; ‘ They were still like a jumble sale inside with everything crammed on the rails . ’ |
| 9 | The speeches were really like a competition to see , who could manipulate and how they used their power . |
| 10 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 11 | M. B. In those days , the police were almost like an élite force because if you joined , people would say : ‘ He 's joined the police . |
| 12 | As I sipped my coffee , I reflected once more than the Midland Irish were very like the English of the 1950s . |
| 13 | Her mother was dead like the badger she had seen last week in the woods , with its hair all stiff , and its mouth curled open . |
| 14 | In appearance she was rather like a gipsy , and her quick , eager speech had a slightly foreign intonation . |
| 15 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 16 | One of the best documented tales of the sighting of a sea monster occurred in 1852 , when a whaling vessel , the Monongahela , netted and took aboard a creature which was rather like a cross between a snake and a crocodile . |
| 17 | It was rather like a mid-West movie , as pleasant as that . |
| 18 | The scene was rather like a bull-fight , with Betty , small-eyed , blundering hither and yon dazzled by the whisk of scarlet , the glancing slippers of the matador . |
| 19 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 20 | To the bassets , Buster 's arrival was rather like the intrusion of an irreverent outsider into an exclusive London club . |
| 21 | The Bowie thing was kinda like the spirit I did ‘ Walk Like An Egyptian ’ in . |
| 22 | For his son , Rock , who had spent most of his life adoring his father like a god , ‘ it was somewhat like the feeling … it 's late at night and you 're alone on the Tube riding with a bunch of thugs and they get off your car . ’ |
| 23 | The man who spoke was enough like the priest in face and build to indicate their relationship , but , instead of the severe black habit and tonsured head which proclaimed the cleric to be of the Benedictine order , he was dressed in all the splendour of a prosperous baron . |
| 24 | She loved him so passionately , and he was so like a god in her eyes . |
| 25 | It was so like the way Han Ch'in had used to sit , his strong legs spread arrogantly , his broad hands resting on his knees . |
| 26 | It was so like an act of worship , so supplicating , that Alexandra could not bear it . |
| 27 | Cos I says to her , I says , do you want a turkey sandwich and well , there was only like a quarter of a tin left . |
| 28 | Against a Coventry side in no fit state to make much of a fist of it , Liley was away like the wind midway through the second half on a 45-yard run for the second of Leicester 's four tries . |
| 29 | I worked for a , for a like a , it 's a money brokers in , in London but exactly the same stockbroking , and it was exactly like the film , you know , they had this , they had this room , like they had one of those long rooms as well you know with all the desks and computers and stuff but they had this one enclosed off room where all the dealers sat round this massive like circular console type table , and like they were all under thirty but like overweight , all c driving Porsches and taking coke and shit like this and right they just , they got into the office at something like six in the morning like I 'd get in at nine and I 'd be , be wandering around they 'd just have their trousers open , shoes off , |
| 30 | and stuff and they 'd be shouting down they were all like , they were all real East End barrow boys and , and just , it was exactly like the film , just talking talking talking all the time on two phones and like , and like I was just so scared to go in there because I , if you do anything wrong they just shout immediately . |