Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] like a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 6 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 7 | Mrs Healy moved away like a ship under full sail . |
| 8 | Reality was quick and did not brook negotiation ; in ‘ that sad swamp on the Potomac ’ , as North later liked to call Washington , reality passed over like a flare of marsh gas , too swift for most of the inhabitants to catch . |
| 9 | Darwin , with his inherited money , doing little experiments in his garden and studying what we would call ecology , seemed rather like a survival from the eighteenth century : the new way to end arguments about animals seemed to be through chemistry . |
| 10 | With David Dimbleby and Peter Sissons occupying curvy command modules jutting out over a sea of computer screens and flashing lights , it seemed rather like a cross between the deck of the Starship Enterprise and an Italian disco . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Those few days seemed more like a year to me . |
| 13 | ‘ Seemed more like a slap in the face to me , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Seven years ago he 'd gone away , leaving her nothing but the cup to remember him by ; it was so long ago that Crazy Jake , with his wide strange eyes and his queer stories , seemed more like a creature from a dream than a flesh-and-blood father . |
| 15 | I can tell you , having Mr Bell 's physog dished up like a plate of cold suet every time I wish to relax is beginning to unnerve me . |
| 16 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 17 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 18 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |
| 19 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 20 | His thin upper-arm came out like a stick from the wavy edge of his greyish-purple T-shirt : all skin and bone , no muscle at all . |
| 21 | Those few short months with Tony seemed sometimes like a dream to her . |
| 22 | She seemed almost like a god to them . |
| 23 | The clip-clop of a hoof came almost like a gunshot in the quiet which followed . |
| 24 | Although appointed as secretary , Doris Alloway became more like a daughter to Mrs Tiller . |
| 25 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 26 | The brittle autumn leaves , shaken by the rush of air , flurried down like a shower of charred paper over the roof and the bright green of the grass . |
| 27 | Then they were plunging into shadow between the woods of Birnam , hauled along like a leaf on a mill-race , and the hedges and trees never ceased to rock backwards past their staring eyes or the horses to gallop onwards with shoulders working and manes streaming until they were in sight of Perth . |
| 28 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 29 | Beside them , even in unrelieved black , Tamar shone out like a butterfly among moths . |
| 30 | Aye , the production may have been poor , but the crude gameplay shone out like a beacon of hope for us downtrodden folk . |