Example sentences of "along like [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gurder , who was normally out of breath at anything above walking pace , bounded along like a balloon . |
| 2 | It also gives the animal unusually short front legs and long hind legs , and an abnormally small anus , so that it hops along like a rabbit and suffers from constipation . |
| 3 | Otley was presentable in his cords and silk shirt ; Nigel in his best jeans and sneakers padded along like a puma ; Elinor , as usual , ravishing in a cream , cotton two-piece , with a raspberry top , mouth to match and sky-blue earrings and chiffon scarf . |
| 4 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 5 | If you are walking in an area where adders are found — dry heath and common land — then as long as you do not go along like a herd of elephants there is a fair chance of coming across one . |
| 6 | The train rolls along like a drunk on beer . |
| 7 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 8 | If you are inclined to race along like a commentator at a horse race try to slow down and introduce a pause or two . |
| 9 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 10 | " Those are rabbits down there , trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts . |
| 11 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 12 | Today all three ‘ get along like a house on fire ’ . |
| 13 | You two should get along like a house on fire as he 's by way of being quite an authority on horses these days . |
| 14 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw that he and Simone were getting along like a house on fire . |
| 15 | Benjamin shouted at Santerre and Mandeville to follow the sheriff , whilst he and I raced after Southgate , now being dragged along like a rag doll . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 18 | As we parted , we could hear our man force-feeding his companions their scotch eggs , hurrying them along like a rowing cox . |
| 19 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 20 | And record years on Wall Street do not come along like the Staten Island ferry . |