Example sentences of "it was like [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was like looking for a needle in a haystack , ’ said Claire Whitehead of the Friskie 's Pet Care Helpline yesterday . |
| 2 | It was like looking for a matchstick in a forest . |
| 3 | It was like waiting for the Second Coming . |
| 4 | Well , it was like waiting for Christmas when you 're a small child : every day seems to last about six months . |
| 5 | It was like waiting for something important to happen which has got to happen before life can go on . |
| 6 | It was like waiting for a bomb to explode , because she never knew what he would do next . |
| 7 | She could , in a way , imagine what it was like caring for the man before her . |
| 8 | It was like going for a walk in a Constable painting . |
| 9 | A British undercover agent in one of David Cornwell 's [ John le Carré 's ] novels is so exasperated by platitudes by a superior that he exploded within himself that it was like working for a bloody clergyman . |