Example sentences of "there like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An' I du n no 'ow long I 'll be livin' 'fore I 'm sick like yore ol' lady 'angin' rahnd ver launjrette an' waitin' up fer ol' man an' 'avin' Gawd knows 'ow many kids 'angin' rahnd me an' ‘ Mummy this ’ and ‘ Mummy that ’ my Gawd if you mus ' know Sharon all my life all I fuckin' wanner do is shine up there like a dancer or sunnink . |
| 2 | If there 's a camera around , I 'm there like a shot . |
| 3 | Offered a free bed and nosebag , Tony is there like a rat up a drainpipe . |
| 4 | Once they get wind of that they 'll have me in there like a shot — And me hands are getting worse . |
| 5 | stays there like a blurred face |
| 6 | And you sit there like a dog chained to a stake fixed in the past , mouthin' your worn-out shibboleths , still full of hate for England and your Church , too arrogant to make your peace with God . |
| 7 | I just stood there like a punch-drunk boxer , taking the punishment she was handing out . |
| 8 | It was almost as though he had grown there like a vile fungus on the dead timber . |
| 9 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
| 10 | Say summat instead of lying there like a great mawker . ’ |
| 11 | It would be just her luck if Inspector Montgomery drove past while she was swinging there like a monkey . |
| 12 | I , too , could have sat there like a fan watching an actress , like a lover watching his beloved , content not to be thinking about Mum and what we could do about her . |
| 13 | The magical quality of the place crept on them there like a spell , the warmth and the sunshine and the scents of the garden and the tranquil silence . |
| 14 | ‘ Shamus sitting there like a stuck pig , and Kevin lookin' at his teacup . |
| 15 | The cook stood there like a shrivelled bootlace , tight-lipped , implacable , disapproving . |
| 16 | This one just hung there like a kite on an invisible string and then fell on its prey like a stone , somewhere in another field . |
| 17 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 18 | I stood there like a fool , watching him . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't sit there like a stuffed owl ! ’ she shouted at Peter . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , do n't stand there like a gormless eejit ! |
| 21 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 22 | You 're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again ? |
| 23 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |
| 24 | He looked at her now , sitting there like a bird with a broken wing , and was torn between wanting to give her a hug and a kiss , as he would with Anna when she 'd fallen and hurt her knee , and a rather more powerful instinct for self-preservation that urged him to climb into the airing cupboard and pull the door shut after him . |
| 25 | In part this was due to an acute awareness of his own awkwardness as a speaker ; the stuttering circumlocutions , the ers and ahs , leading inexorably to a pained silence , or the word that always hung there like a tail , ‘ Anyway … ’ . |
| 26 | And all Antoine did was sit there like a Buddha with that irritating smirk on his face . |
| 27 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 28 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 29 | I just stood there like a goof waiting for him to introduce her . |
| 30 | She stood there like a dark messiah with some unseen flock before her , and Pete could n't help but begin to assemble shapes out of the grainy darkness and to give them solidity and movement . |