Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 2 | When I first went in , I was on like an assessment unit . |
| 3 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 4 | No it was in er , in was in like a plaster of paris thing |
| 5 | He was over like a shot . |
| 6 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
| 7 | The route passed through a wood and George was off like a Baldersdale-bred hare . |
| 8 | The man was up like a cat , crouching , legs apart , the pale lights of the motor yacht shimmering on the knife in his hand , spittle foaming at the corners of his mouth , mad eyes . |
| 9 | We were downstairs , laid out like sardines under the Morrison shelter , but when this happened my Dad was up like a shot and racing up the stairs with a bucket of sand , ready to throw it over what we assumed was an incendiary bomb which had come through the roof . |
| 10 | Oh I was out like a light ! |
| 11 | The spaceship was round like a ball . |