Example sentences of "like a house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked ready to collapse like a house of cards if Swire Sugden huffed and puffed hard enough . |
| 2 | The accusations against Waldheim , however , had collapsed like a house of cards and ‘ those pulling the strings ’ had been revealed , Schedl claimed . |
| 3 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 4 | London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms , all different ; the kick was to work out how they connected , and eventually to walk through all of them . |
| 5 | ‘ A moral life without reference to religion is like a house built on sand . |
| 6 | On the face of it , therefore , it would not seem possible to maintain the view that morality without religion is unthinkable , or like a house built on sand . |
| 7 | The special constitutional arrangement which the Westminster government had imposed on the region in the preceding months collapsed like a house of cards . |
| 8 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 9 | Like a house party , the atmosphere at Cabarave is intimate and irreverent . |
| 10 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 11 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 12 | Today all three ‘ get along like a house on fire ’ . |
| 13 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 14 | On other occasions , borrowing may be the only way you will ever be able to afford to buy something expensive like a house . |
| 15 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 16 | A distinction may be made between full indicators , which retain the whole of their normal constituent meaning , like black — and — bird in blackbird ( it is true that female blackbirds are brown , but black — here still relates to ‘ black ’ , which is a salient characteristic of the species ) , and partial indicators , like — house in greenhouse ( a greenhouse is not a house ; but , like a house , it is a building ) . |
| 17 | He wo n't say anything if he does n't want to — ‘ That 's life , ’ he will shrug , in response to some question that you have built like a house of cards — but if he wants to , he 'll say anything . |
| 18 | The house looked like a house in a fairy tale . |
| 19 | The Face , once a cool , mocking style catalogue , now reads like a house journal , a Tatler for the design and fashion scene . |
| 20 | Ruth 's hopes , which she had built so high , collapsed like a house of cards . |
| 21 | The service at the crematorium went off like a house on fire and on returning home I received a phone call from Pybus to say that , at a meeting of directors , Carter and Tilley had quit . |
| 22 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 23 | For example , it is suggested that : " The rooms should be grouped in a simple manner , easy for patients and visitors to find their way around ; the whole building should be on one level and should look as far as is possible both externally and internally like a house not a hospital : there should be a clearly defined main entry/exit point for patients , staff , visitors and supplies which should have a ramped approach and in which the main door should be lockable : WC and washing compartment should be shared between pairs of single bed rooms and should be readily accessible to the sitting and dining rooms ; the bathroom should be readily accessible to both day and night areas ; the WC and the bathroom should be equipped for wheelchairs and standing users : the sitting and dining rooms and the external enclosure should be accessible by wheelchair : rooms should be differentiated in colour and finish while remaining domestic in scale and character : an informal , welcoming and comfortable reception/waiting area is required at the entrance to provide shelter and waiting spaces for visitors : the area between main entrance and sub-section entrances is likely to be an extensive area of circulation and will be the hub of the building but it could also be , spaciously , rather than an enlarged corridor , a positive amenity and focus if designed as a conservatory , for example , to contain plants or even birds and fish providing a stimulus to patients ' visitors and staff , and , finally : the safe external enclosure ( to which I referred earlier , ) should take the form of a walled garden matching the materials of parent buildings , suitably softened with appropriate planting . |
| 24 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 25 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 26 | A character that looked like a house running on four legs . |
| 27 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 28 | Next morning , the countryside was heavy and sullen like a house where a dreadful quarrel has taken place and still nothing is resolved . |
| 29 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 30 | But so far I 'm going grey like a house that needs painting : slowly and streakily . |