Example sentences of "like [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR visit to the Hall is like stepping straight into a vanished world . |
| 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 | Going into North Road station is like stepping back in time . |
| 8 | Like stepping out of your skin , like changing your face . |
| 9 | Motherwell ‘ keeper Thomson was at full stretch to smother the youngster 's shot which looked like sneaking in at the foot of the post . |
| 10 | ‘ I really enjoy my job and especially like keeping up to date with all the modern styles , ’ says the enthusiastic young stylist from Hampshire . |
| 11 | Like walking straight into the middle of a thriller . |
| 12 | People like walking about with a novel . |
| 13 | The interior light is like returning home from the world in the evening to the cheer and warmth and light . |
| 14 | A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie . |
| 15 | But not like prowling round in the dark like a kid . ’ |
| 16 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 17 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 18 | It must be like looking back through primitive blown glass . |
| 19 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 20 | It was all so sudden it made her feel queer ; affecting her stomach like looking down from the top of a cliff or riding on a Big Dipper . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 23 | 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 … ’ |
| 24 | And enjoys a perfect night 's sleep — deep , clear , and refreshing , like gliding down through sunlit water on a hot day ; such a perfect night 's sleep that he is entirely unconscious of how much he is enjoying it , or of its depth , clarity , and refreshingness , or its resemblance to gliding through sunlit water on a hot day ; so perfect that from time to time he half wakes , just enough to become conscious of how unconscious of everything he is . |
| 25 | Ken playing Rodney , Hugh Paddick as Charles , two frightfully , frightfully Mayfair types , doing ridiculous things together like dressing up as red Indians when they took a canoeing holiday . |
| 26 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 27 | Angry with Dmitri , who obviously lied about his affairs with adoring women , she felt like pulling out from the carezza ; however , it might wake him , and she would be unable to continue reading the intriguing correspondence . |
| 28 | If you feel like going completely over the top , why not grow some rhubarb chard near your gaudy cabbages ? |
| 29 | A holiday-maker had once described the ascent to him as ‘ like going up to Heaven ’ . |
| 30 | It did n't used to but when I , I , I , I feel like going up to these girls and saying for god 's sake take that thing out of your mouth . |