Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] like a " 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 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 6 | Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet . |
| 7 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 8 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 9 | And could we take this yellow one off we 'll find it fits in like a wall , like that look . |
| 10 | Ellwood walked to his car and got in like a man with a purpose accomplished . |
| 11 | Sadly , this makes all her high moral stances and her bonny sights of yesteryear come tumbling down like a house of cards . |
| 12 | But it can equally be an ‘ invisible elbow ’ which brings the earth 's precarious ecological balance crashing down like a pile of cans in a supermarket . |
| 13 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 14 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 15 | And there was a third T-shirt , which featured a black bloke clutching a basketball , with his 12-inch , semi-erect dick hanging down like a Nigerian salami . |
| 16 | ‘ You always leave your hair hanging down like a hippy too , ’ he continued . |
| 17 | This consisted of a strip of patterned cloth with a fringe at each end , a knotted loop in the middle and the two ends hanging down like a modern neck-tie . |
| 18 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 19 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 20 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 21 | Emulating its action against Hirac Inc in the US , Sparc International , the evangelising supporters group for Sun Microsystems Inc 's RISC has come down like a ton of bricks on a small UK start-up trying to carve a living out of the Sparc-compatible space . |
| 22 | Only Hugo , once again in me , part of me , driving in like a needle into flesh , will stop this particular distress . |
| 23 | He 'd shifted a lot of linen , some bags of which weighed in like a circus fat lady . |
| 24 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 25 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 26 | I charged in like a bull . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Of course , after I 'd cut off one bit , my temper cooled down like a hot Poker dipped in a rain barrel . |
| 29 | I have been passive , carried along like a twig in a torrent . |
| 30 | In the worst of three public falls , he ‘ crashed over like a tree ’ at the 1936 Democratic convention , but aides rushed to hide him and pick him up . |