Example sentences of "it was like [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like smoking a bonfire rolled up in lavatory paper . |
| 2 | He watched her without comment , and when she began to undress him , it was like undressing a baby . |
| 3 | It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again , this time from above the water , rather than underneath it . |
| 4 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 5 | It was like taking a step back into the past , and for a moment a little shiver ran down her spine . |
| 6 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 7 | Watching you jump was … well , it was like seeing a firework going off , a sky-rocket . |
| 8 | Because Roirbak had built the machine to appear humanoid , more so than any of the others in the building , it was like seeing a real dead body lying there . |
| 9 | It was like seeing a very strong gust of wind coming straight at me . |
| 10 | It was like seeing a room that 's been tidied up after a death . |
| 11 | It was like seeing an old friend suffer as Joe Royle 's men , still without an away win , stumbled into the bottom four . |
| 12 | It was like seeing the lock for which he had carried around the key , year after ignorant year . |
| 13 | It was like recognizing the germs of some disease under a microscope . |
| 14 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 15 | It was like pushing a trigger in the brain . |
| 16 | It was like entering a new element . |
| 17 | It was like entering a whole new world , thought Isabel . |
| 18 | It was like eating the same meal at every mealtime . |
| 19 | It was like holding the twig of a tree when there 's no wind blowing . |
| 20 | ‘ It was like throwing a piece of meat to sharks . |
| 21 | She 's easy to talk to — it was like meeting a friend . ’ |
| 22 | As I handed them the keys to their new home it was like unlocking the door to their future happiness . ’ |
| 23 | The grade was manageable in the lowest of 18 gears , but it was like riding an exercise cycle in a sauna . |
| 24 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 25 | It was like watching a child grow up too quickly . |
| 26 | At times it was like watching a cat toying with a mouse , so complete was Fiji 's mastery in a 22–6 win . |
| 27 | It was like watching a whirlwind . |
| 28 | It was like watching a dance of colours that flowed with emotions faster than the light of her vision . |
| 29 | It was like watching a clumsy remake of an old movie . |
| 30 | It was like watching a party to which he had n't been invited . |