Example sentences of "[was/were] like [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 2 | It was like stepping backwards in time . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 4 | As one Shell executive remembers of his visits : ‘ It was like stepping back in time . |
| 5 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 6 | For Simon , it was like stepping back in time to the turn of the century . |
| 7 | It was like counting down to an explosion . |
| 8 | 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 … ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | It was like switching over from an old black and white film . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was like waking up after a long , long nightmare , but it was not safe at all to be awake . |
| 14 | Coming into it was like coming home on a bitter cold day to a bright , leaping fire . |
| 15 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 16 | For Rob it was like going back to Piccadilly Circus after five years and finding all the buildings have been moved . |
| 17 | It was like going back in time . |
| 18 | ‘ In some ways it was like going back in time , living in the mountains where there was no electricity or running water . |
| 19 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |