Example sentences of "down like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't mean put down like bloody tramlines . |
| 2 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 3 | The female octopus lays her eggs in a hole or small cave sometimes attached to the roof of the lair , hanging down like tiny wax candles . |
| 4 | In terms of a classical wave picture of light the electrons would all be agitated by the electromagnetic radiation , bobbing up and down like anchored buoys in an ocean swell . |
| 5 | They rained down like small coal from a sack , filling the air with choking dust which settled grimily over everything and made the whole world smell grey . |
| 6 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |
| 7 | Can we have it written down like real mathematicians ? |
| 8 | Fluted green columns of synthetic electrogenerative tourmaline supported a black groined vault from which servicing machines hung down like great roosting mutant bats . |
| 9 | Despite this inconclusive beginning , the evening soon livened up as guests swooped down like scenic railway trains on the trays of grilled prawns and champagne . |
| 10 | All around , the other Scots lords went down like bowled skittles . |
| 11 | Blue grey droplets of water splash down like giant trees . |
| 12 | The resulting scene was bizarre , as ninety skinheads moved slowly over the stones , heads down like rooting chickens , with the occasional flurry of movement as somebody found a Marlboro butt . |
| 13 | Now the men were scattered and being hunted down like wild animals . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't we all sit down like sensible human beings and discuss this ? ’ she pleaded . |
| 15 | So your engine 's doing about four thousand revs and it 's geared down like mad and your tanker is just creeping so you can hardly see |
| 16 | That 's what I say , there 'll always be , they run us down like mad and and yet they all come here . |
| 17 | Only occasional flakes came haphazardly down like white sifts of charred paper when a chimney is on fire . |
| 18 | It was coloured in cement and grey , its slate roof dull with moss , great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow . |