Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , do stop bobbing up and down like a yo-yo , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 3 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
| 4 | She levered his arm up and down like a pump handle , then turning to the card players said : ‘ Bob , Joe , Mr Loveitt , Dr Plumb , ladies … you know Mr Godschalk from Bretyard and Pope Insurance Office . ’ |
| 5 | In addition , the pass rates go up and down like a yo-yo . |
| 6 | The client who was not convinced and pacified by what his dealer said would not only refuse to trade further with him , but would not sleep easy at night , tormented by the thoughts of his investments tossing up and down like a rowing boat in a stormy sea . |
| 7 | The wave has no difficulty in going through both slits and provides a " choppy sea " on which the particle bobs up and down like a cork . |
| 8 | There may be only a few , or they may twinkle in their hundreds like some strange city skyline and , most disconcerting of all , a double set of lights may suddenly float up and down like a luminescent yo-yo . |
| 9 | Piper wagged his hand up and down like a broken automaton . |
| 10 | A fair swell was running , and the boat bobbed up and down like a cork on the surface . |
| 11 | ‘ And I do n't see , ’ continued Betty , ‘ why you had to say Elizabeth was going up and down like a whore 's drawers when she was only moving things off the table . ’ |
| 12 | Neither had I , but Siegfried prowled up and down like a caged panther as though willing something to happen . |
| 13 | Drums like Snipe , but in display hovers and bobs up and down like a marionette , making note likened to distant galloping horse . |
| 14 | Lesser Short-toed Lark Song a simple sustained repetition of a few musical notes , often ending with a wistful phrase recalling Willow Warbler ( p. 237 ) , usually uttered in aerial display with bird bobbing up and down like a slowly manipulated yo-yo , and with no final plumb drop . |
| 15 | Annoyed at the fellow leaping up and down like a jack-in-the-box , wishing that he could escape as easily , and regretful that he had not demanded his urgent message for somewhat earlier , the Prince of Wales shifted uneasily in his plush upright seat in the ballroom to which they had adjourned . |
| 16 | ‘ That could be a matter for debate , ’ she said with curt emphasis , watching him prowl up and down like a shark testing the boundaries of a tank . |
| 17 | If his heart does n't give out , thought Frances , for Miss Greedy Eyes dropped her hands and boogied away and what could he do but follow , flinging his arms and legs up and down like a puppet . |
| 18 | All I could see were a pair of white legs wrapped round a creaking great torso and the royal arse going up and down like a pair of bellows whilst the ‘ Oohs ’ and ‘ Ahs ’ were chorused by Henry 's groans of lustful delight . |
| 19 | If there had been any danger from Quigley , it was headed off , once again , by Pikey , who dashed into a space by himself and , springing up and down like a goblin , started to shout , ‘ Hear the word of the Lord ! ’ at regular intervals . |
| 20 | Pike was on the other , jumping up and down like a man with a swarm of bees in his underpants . |
| 21 | Too busy jumping up and down like a lunatic ( along with the rest of most of the crowd ) . |
| 22 | Otherwise Arthur 'll jump up and down like a demented rabbit . |
| 23 | You 're turning sound up and down like a yo-yo ! |
| 24 | Mm , it would bounce up and down like a yo-yo |
| 25 | Well I shall go because if that fella 's been from , if that fella said I did n't have a job I 'll be jumping up and down like a what d' ya call it ! |
| 26 | They 're all flapping round her cos her temperature keeps going up and down like a bloody yo yo . |
| 27 | Our monies going to go up and down like a yo-yo really . |
| 28 | You 're up and down like a yo-yo ! |
| 29 | Being a local councillor suspended and I 've been up and down like a yo-yo , as regarding the principles of this government . |
| 30 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |