Example sentences of "was like [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It was like recognizing the germs of some disease under a microscope .
2 We would all be much happier if real life problem.solving was like assembling the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle .
3 I watched with interest — it was like observing the gyrations of an alien species , a praying mantis or something .
4 When Ian Durrant returned from three years on the scrapheap with a crippling knee injury , Graeme Souness said it was like signing a Pounds 3 million star .
5 It was like driving the machines around an invisible Wall of Death Lambert found that he could look across the circle and see right inside the German pilot 's cockpit .
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