"They ended up being like my own family, " said Balkovec, whose boyfriend later moved in also.
"Being like Norway would be a very good holding position for the UK, " he said.
They often speak about the vast organisations they head being like a "family".
It may be useful to think of a computer network as being like a system of roads.
Mr. TERENCE BLANCHARD (Musician): I look at these guys in my band as being like really visionaries.
Officers described his eyes as being like "pin pricks" and his speech was said to be slurred.
And then I found out that I liked almost being like a tailor.
People living near the JG Pears plant in Market Harborough describe the odour as being like "rotting meat broth".
Overwhelmingly, the theatre of war struck Keane as being like a film set.
"Someone described it as being like a goalkeeper in football, " he said.
He described the scene as being like "something from a film set".
And speaking of staying alive, one key component of staying alive is belonging, or being like the other critters in the environment.
The hosts dismiss the old analogies of memory being like a library or even a computer, although these metaphors are at times useful.
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He describes his adaptations as being like noir movies on paper.
Coach K was asked Saturday about his Blue Devils being like the Bronx Bombers in terms of nonpartisan fans rooting against them because of their success.
Instead of being like a fraternity who protects its members at all costs, it appears college football is splintering as schools battle for top recruits and championships.
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I've heard patients describe this experience as being like looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope, so that everything seems smaller and distorted.
This is normally frowned upon as being like vigilante action.
You will hear some freaking out but I think this game will wind up being like every event that's preceded by a public freakout: It will be more relaxed than everyone expects.
Also because Brent showed so little sign of being like him like Neal and seemed, in fact, so much more like my father that I really wondered about what was going on around the time he was conceived.
"There is no illusion anymore about 11 football players being like friends, and all these things about 'Real Love' and so on, " Jan-Henrick Gruszecki, one of the founders of Dortmund's biggest fan group, Unity, said, making reference to Dortmund's motto.
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And should the parents advise the child that former NFL players, players that the child dreams of being like, filed a lawsuit just last year against the NFL for not fully and fairly revealing what the NFL knew about the damaging effects of concussions on player health?
Delivering the homily of his first Mass as leader of the worlds 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis ended his remarks with a call to reconstruction of the church, which he said is in danger of being like a house of sand built by children on a beach.
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WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.
It was like being young again, like being back in Miles City, his home town in Montana, when they had something to celebrate, such as building a barn.
"Being a lesbian in Khayelitsha is like you are being treated like an animal, like some kind of an alien or something, " she said.
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"In the instance of the Linked Hybrids, this experience seems more like being in an observation tower, and less like being in the middle of a bustling, alive, exciting city, " he says.
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