Example sentences of "down like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take off your nightshirt and come down like a man ! ’ — a catcall from the body of the crowd . |
| 2 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 3 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 4 | He also scared the daylights out of us when he said : ‘ If you put down anything I do n't like , I 'll hunt you down like a shit-house rat ’ . |
| 5 | The pudding went down like a dream , in blessed silence , and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee . |
| 6 | She had the unusual skill of being able to pull the end down like a tapir when she was angry . |
| 7 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 8 | Gloria poured her a spoonful from each bottle every day and said that 's why she was tough as old boots , because she always swallowed it down like a good girl . |
| 9 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 10 | I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , do stop bobbing up and down like a yo-yo , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 13 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 14 | Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon . |
| 15 | The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer . |
| 16 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 17 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 18 | Yet I know that if I were discussing a performance of , say , the ‘ Eroica ’ Symphony , I would come down like a ton of bricks on imprecise ensemble , where others would readily accept the fault if the interpretation was up to it ! |
| 19 | On winter days the thin spirals of blue smoke were particularly visible , although , in fact , you could see them on most days save when heavy rain , snow , or mist came down like a curtain over everything except the immediate slope of the hill and its scattered beeches . |
| 20 | She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’ |
| 21 | The Argentine night came down like a blind , but , when it was too dark to ride , he seldom took a siesta , struggling instead through Martin Fierro , Don Quixote , or El Cid with the aid of a Spanish dictionary , or listening to music , mostly Mozart . |
| 22 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 23 | In addition , the pass rates go up and down like a yo-yo . |
| 24 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |
| 25 | ‘ Take me out and shoot me down like a dog , old buddy , I was forgetting . |
| 26 | It turned right over backwards , spun briefly upside down like a top , then , still upside down , skidded into the back of the now stationary lorry . |
| 27 | Below the chin is a pouch that hangs down like a dewlap . |
| 28 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 29 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 30 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |