Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Seemed all right at first , but came up like a balloon over the weekend . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The dawn came up like a fire behind the white roofs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Beside them , even in unrelieved black , Tamar shone out like a butterfly among moths . |
| 20 | Aye , the production may have been poor , but the crude gameplay shone out like a beacon of hope for us downtrodden folk . |
| 21 | But the stores group , Kingfisher shone out like a beacon in the dull market . |
| 22 | When Boy George first skipped on stage caked in make-up singing ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ? ’ ten years ago , he stuck out like a fairy on a rather drab Christmas tree . |
| 23 | At this party , I rushed around like a student on the last day of school , confronting over and over again people 's incredulity and dismay at my impending departure , assuring them that I could n't believe I was leaving , exchanging addresses and agreeing to keep in touch until the end of time . |
| 24 | ‘ You remember Master , she was the one you followed round like a lapdog at that Press Party last month . ’ |
| 25 | I had been moved into the front room and laid out like a corpse on the sofa . |
| 26 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 27 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 28 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 29 | It just leapt up like a demon in my head when I was staring at you … like X-ray eyes … |
| 30 | Though the unit had long since given up any pretence of cooling the room , it did turn out to have a curious talent for magnifying the pigeons ' footfalls so that their tap dance rang out like a drum-roll at six every morning . |