Example sentences of "like [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like firing into a sand-pile . |
| 2 | Where it differs from the Mirza Nama is in the richness of the fawning which curdles every sentence : reading Inayat Khan 's chronicle you experience a sensation like drowning under a sea of the sweetest , stickiest honey . |
| 3 | It was like stepping into a museum . |
| 4 | Entering one of the 104 spacious suites is like stepping into a time warp . |
| 5 | It was like stepping from a lit room into illimitable , unknowable night . |
| 6 | WATCHING Paris Match is like tucking into a plate of meringues and discovering that they are all Styrofoam fakes . |
| 7 | In this case it really is like drawing inside a kaleidoscope . |
| 8 | From being with a squadron on a war footing at Driffield — which was a pleasant oasis in the East Riding of Yorkshire — to arriving in the Highland town of Forres , which seemed to welcome the inmates of Kinloss. was like fumbling through a series of dark curtains into some broad sunlight . |
| 9 | She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for . |
| 10 | It would have been like stamping on a little bird you watch learning to fly . |
| 11 | For me , going on a strict vegan diet where all animal products were banned , where there was no place for tea or coffee , where even fish , eggs , salt and sugar were forbidden , was like leaping from a warm bed into the icy seas of Antarctica . |
| 12 | Checking into Air Canada 's Hospitality Class is like checking into a five star hotel . |
| 13 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 14 | ‘ We want it to be like walking into a craft exhibition , ’ says Sam Wanamaker . |
| 15 | The scent was the first thing : it was like walking into a peach-canning factory . |
| 16 | Though late afternoon , it was like walking into a blast furnace and she was glad she 'd twisted her dark , glossy hair into a knot on top of her head . |
| 17 | On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight . |
| 18 | But the real problem is that no matter how reactionary their articles seem to be the writers still tend to be enmeshed in the thought patterns of the Straightworld even when deriding it , which can only work like walking on a treadmill towards the new World . |
| 19 | It was a hot day but the valley was all bush apart from some enormous landslips , which we found were frozen underneath , like walking on a glacier . |
| 20 | Even on a fine day , the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel . |
| 21 | It 's like walking in a dream , all the shops and cars and everything all sort of fairy tale , like they ai n't really there . |
| 22 | I did not fancy approaching any of the holiday cruisers — a bit like knocking on a caravan door and asking for a bed . |
| 23 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 24 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 25 | I imagine that it was a bit like driving through a minefield in the war , the fact that we did not hit anybody was a miracle in itself ! |
| 26 | It 's like driving on a motorway . |
| 27 | It is like eavesdropping at a match , though such ‘ alternative ’ humour is very rare . |
| 28 | Being brought before a disciplinary panel is not like appearing in a public criminal court . |
| 29 | How about doing something really unusual instead — like appearing in a clean feminine dress with well-brushed hair ? |
| 30 | It feels like passing through a political demonstration . |